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...Mandel, feared in politics for his thoroughgoing dossiers of the careers of France's great and near-great, asked for pen, ink, paper. Daladier, whom the war strain turned from a fairly pleasant individual into a red-faced, moody old bull, was more taciturn than ever. In the daylight he scrawled a lengthy history of his record in office to present to the court...
...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...
When the ultimatum expired, with only about three hours of daylight left to fight, the British Commander, Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville, felt he could wait no longer. With three capital ships, an aircraft carrier, three cruisers and a strong screen of destroyers he went into action. When he opened fire most of the French men of war were unprepared. So far as these pictures show, they never fired a shot...
Last fortnight across the Atlantic came details of another brand of German attack from the air: high-altitude, level-flight bombing, which the U. S. Army Air Corps uses to the exclusion of the diving attack. Returning travelers who saw the daylight raid on Paris, hundreds of other attacks through France, told of hearing raiders so high that they were out of sight in the clear sky. Yet these planes, starting out their campaign by smashing up France's airfields and pursuit resistance, methodically and unspectacularly brought a creeping paralysis to France's communications. Road junctions were reduced...
...them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first volley from the crossbows. Narciso is enough a man of his time to get bloody excitement out of his first kills: when, with four hours' daylight left, his companions begin to slaughter merely for sport, he "followed fascinated." It was easy enough to see what had been in credible: how, in six years, half of these Indians - a million- had been obliterated...