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English eyebrows were raised at the reports of these U.S. jitters. They knew that nuisance raids by German planes across the Atlantic are possible but improbable. Even when Britain, in her darkest hour, was evacuating her shattered troops from Dunkirk, there was no great hysteria in London. But a large part of the U.S., including even some of its interventionists, had convinced itself that the U.S. was immune to direct attack, a handicap from which Britain did not suffer...
First resource to go, because no totalitarianism feels safe until it is liquidated, is the questioning human mind. "Europe today is faced with something that has never occurred in its history, except perhaps in the darkest period of confusion after the fall of the Roman Empire: the disappearance of its intelligentsia. The havoc among the older generation of the educated classes has been frightful. . . . But it is the outlook for the future that is darkest. . . . The youth ... is being brought up to act mechanically, not to think; to shout, not to reflect; to respond like trained animals to definite stimuli...
Diplomatically, Russia and the democracies had come a pleasurable full circle. Franklin Roosevelt had squinted up his eyes, looked all the way across at darkest Russia, and had seen a church; Joseph Stalin squinted back and saw a picket line. In response to this recognition, the Soviet Foreign Commissariat appointed as Ambassador to the U.S. none other than Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, the bourgeois Communist, torchbearer for disarmament, handmaiden of collective security...
...need is a projector and a little extra cash and you can spend the night watching the war in China, the battle for Europe, Roosevelt's third inauguration, or savage beasts in Darkest Africa--all from a comfortable armchair...
...buckskin shorts and a permanent wave, Heroine Gifford, who is an agile five-foot-six, 121 lb., sound of wind and limb, undergoes some rather strenuous perils as Nyoka, daughter of Dr. Meredith, an emi ent physician consigned to darkest Africa by the nefarious activities of his twin brother. Off to Africa goes the twin upon learning that his brother is ministering to a native tribe with a storehouse full of diamonds. There he teams up with Slick Latimer to kill the good doctor and replace him. His true identity and devious intentions eventually reveal themselves to Nyoka, who, with...