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Whose Fault? Against this background, which was not too dissimilar from that of other war-crowded cities, Michigan's Governor Harry F. Kelly last week issued the report of a committee he had set up to determine the causes of Detroit's riot. Said the report, in a broad whitewash of the city's bumbling, do-nothing administration and incompetent police force...
...unbroken peace has also been facilitated by the essential similarities of both countries in geo-political, social, cultural, and mental fields. Prevalent opinion is that Russia and the United States are as contrastingly dissimilar as two countries can be. Like many other prevalent opinions this conception is rather wrong...
Look Homeward Angels. Close to the contemporary U.S. were two roughly similar books by two totally dissimilar writers - Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' best-selling Cross Creek ($2.50), Essayist E. B. White's sane and salty One Man's Meat ($2.50). Ludwig Bemelmans, a first-rate light storyteller with a surpassing light style, criticized human foibles with a sweet smile in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You ($2.50). But it remained for Humorist James Thurber, reporting on A.D. 1942!s general state of affairs in My World - And Welcome...
Conditions were dissimilar to conditions which would prevail for an invasion of Britain: the body of water to be crossed was three times as wide at Crete, the terrain was completely different, population at Crete was scattered and unorganized for defense, the military objectives were few and simple, and, most important of all, the R.A.F. had no secondary fields to fall back on. But conditions at Crete were extraordinarily like those which would prevail in an assault on Ireland...
...time of Edward VIII's abdication, Stanley Baldwin was the typical Englishman. At the time of the Munich crisis, Neville Chamberlain was pathetically typical. But as of the fourth week of September 1940, Winston Churchill was the essence of his land. The three men are as dissimilar as fog, rain and hail, which are all water. But the country they ruled has changed. This England is different...