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Britons last week were much fonder of another book about the Blitzkrieg: Their Finest Hour, a collection of reports by TIME'S London Correspondents Walter Graebner and Allan Michie. Their book consists largely of firsthand accounts of men who served at Dunkirk, in the Navy, in the R. A. F., etc. Up to last week 7,000 copies had been sold, the equivalent of a sale of more than...
...ambitious program to save democracy. Its author was P. E. A.'s brash young Executive Secretary Frederick Lovatt Redefer (TIME, Oct. 31, 1938). He proposed as the schools' No. 1 job a crusade to make the nation's children appreciate their land by seeing it firsthand. His plan: let pupils get part of their education in work camps (like CCC) instead of classrooms, let them visit and labor in fields and factories. Said Mr. Redefer...
Tonight in the New Lecture Hall three members of the faculty, sponsored by the Council, will tell what they know about conditions overseas. Each of them has escaped from a conquered home-land, and each has some firsthand knowledge of what is happening in Europe, not to the armies perhaps, but to the people. There will be no exhortations and no pleas to "give till it hurts." This is a time when exhortation and pleas will do little to arouse the public. It is the eloquent facts of Europe's woe which should speak for themselves...
...roared a triumphant tale of victory over the British Mediterranean Fleet. Gleefully Rome told of sinking a British cruiser in the Malta Channel, damaging an aircraft carrier and another cruiser, putting the Royal Navy to rout. Last week tits British Admiralty issued a different version, backed it up with firsthand accounts of the battle...
Edward Trelawny knew Shelley some six months, Byron two years, but he wrote (30 years later) the most colorful firsthand report of their strange doings-Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. Last fortnight Margaret Armstrong (Fanny Kemble) reported the even stranger doings of Edward Trelawny, showed him to have been more Byronic than Byron...