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Smashing the British was these men's job, and their aerial Trafalgar marked an epoch in military history. The argument whether air fleets can conquer sea fleets has not been settled and may never be. But last week in the Battle of Britain, neither Germans nor Britons fooled themselves: mastery of the air was mastery...
...sincere conviction that the democratic processes of government can meet the tremendous demands now placed upon them. . . . This is not to say that after full and free discussion they should not decide to surrender certain rights and privileges for a period. . . ." Youth: "Perhaps the supreme tragedy of the present epoch is the fact that the friends of democracy in many lands . . . have failed to present to their children a great and ennobling goal. . . . The apparent enthusiasm and loyalty of youth in totalitarian states are not simply the products of regimentation and propaganda. Their deeper source is found in the fact...
...with a different intent. It hoped by the removal of Lord Halifax to facilitate democratic "counterrevolution" against Hitlerism throughout the Continent (TIME, July 22). "Here is a moment of supreme psychological importance. . . . The peoples of Europe know far better than Lord Halifax that the French capitulation has closed an epoch of history and they ask themselves anxiously, 'is the battle now between Hitler's New European Order and the Old British Empire?' Or is it, as they desire but hardly dare to hope, between the lords of the Third Reich and the protagonists of European revolution...
...went not only five Ministers, but out, too, went an epoch. At long last and after many shifts, the supine time was over. In the days after this historic meeting, France might easily be beaten down by unbeatable force, but not again by lack of determination...
Last week, to the Cincinnati meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Fabing took Eugene, a smiling, self-possessed young man. Proudly Dr. Fabing told of Eugene's amazing six-month progress from baby to man, a case unparalleled in psychiatric history, hailed by conservative Dr. Putnam as "epoch-making...