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...passage. While this control remains, the German, Italian and Japanese Navies are divided: the passages through which they must pass in order to concentrate their forces for a decisive blow are plugged in the English Channel, at Gibraltar, Suez and Singapore. . . . The grand objective of the Axis is to crush sea power in its main base in the British Isles, and at the same time to clear a passageway from Europe to the Pacific. . . . If this objective is obtained, we shall stand on the defensive in the two oceans...
...hopeful side, Britons argued that defenses had forced the Germans to try one tactic after another. First they tried to crush the Air Force by daylight dive-bombing attacks on airports; that failed. Then they went after communications and industries; that failed. Next they tried indiscriminate daylight mass bombings of London; that only stiffened morale. Last week they resorted to late afternoon bombings with incendiaries to light beacons for all-night mass bombings. Whether or not that was a failure remained to be seen this week. From all accounts, it seemed...
...defeat Spain, the wily Cardinal saw that he must ally himself with the German Protestants. Before he could safely ally himself with the German Protestants, he must crush their allies in France, the Huguenots. Hence the first blow against Catholic Spain was the destruction of the French Protestants. Eighteen years later, Richelieu had crippled Spain, tamed the French nobles, made the King supreme in France, France supreme in Europe...
...Laid in the future like one of H. G. Wells's fantasies, it was called The War of 1938. Lyle's story was a forthright piece of propaganda. His object in The War of 1038 was to discourage talk of a negotiated peace, persuade the Allies to crush Germany altogether...
Artist Doctoroff, 47, is the nearest thing there is to a court painter in the U. S. His court is the Republican Party, where he made friends when 1) he won a contest for charcoal drawings of the late Calvin Coolidge, 2) the Republican Chicago Tribune got a violent crush on him. Trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union, where he took a four-year art course in two years, Artist Doctoroff was a modest illustrator in Dallas, Tex. when his Coolidge drawing, done from photographs, won over 1,000 others, was made the official campaign picture. He also drew...