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Such a military juggernaut might be a fine instrument for Realpolitik, but was it American-was it politically feasible? One of the country's greatest military men had privately said, while the plans were adrawing, that they were ridiculous-Congress would never agree to drain off so huge a proportion of the nation's young manhood, or to foot the bills even if the men all volunteered...
Donovan had been careful to say that the agency should have no police power either at home or abroad. But the furor had its effect. In the end Donovan's idea of an independent agency went down the drain...
...Down the Drain. The mood of Erich Maria Remarque's new novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for February) is quiet desperation. Most of its characters are émigrés of polyglot nationalities. Its setting is Paris, the sink in which most of them have been stranded before being washed down the drain. The time is the eve of World...
Berlin's new hit is actually 13 years old. It was first sung in 1933 by prisoners in the Börgermoor concentration camp as they marched off to drain the nearby peat bogs. Prisoners secretly wrote it on barracks walls, whispered it at slave labor chores; it became the favorite song of the German underground. Anti-Nazi Germans took it to Spain with them, taught it to their comrades in the International Brigade. As The Peat-Bog Soldiers it was brought to the U.S. by Loyalist veterans, recorded by Paul Robeson...
When Mrs. Little lost her ring down the bathtub drain, Mr. Little suggested that they lower Stuart into the drain on a string. Soon Stuart came up with the ring around his neck. "How was it down there?" asked Mr. Little, who was always curious about places he had never been to. "It was all right," said Stuart...