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...were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
...German importations genuinely welcome in this country. Mr. Kissner, a pioneer in the manufacture of these sleek "downhill yachts," has gathered together a valuable storehouse of information on the technical and geographical aspects of this speedier form of canoeing. It is altogether necessary for already-enthusiastic fold-boaters, and is likely to make many new converts to the sport...
Willkie snapped: "I say to him, in all seriousness, that if he, as keynoter of the Republican Party, attempts to put the Republican Party on record as saying what is going on in Europe is none of our busi ness, then we might as well fold up." Minnesota's Republicans forthwith presented Mr. Willkie with his first delegates. ^ Wrote Editor Felix Morley in the Washington Post: "Neutrality has no meaning when such a merciless military machine is in full operation. . . . No country can possibly be indifferent ... all those not actually at war, or poised to strike at the strategic...
Heresy's chief weakness is that it begets further heresies. Last week the heretical Trotskyites read their own heretics out of the fold. Schism started when orthodox Russian Communists invaded Poland and Finland. Schachtmanites declared that the Stalinists had thus blasphemed against the revolutionary religious content of Marxism, made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper...
First definite signs of the long-rumored fold-up came when the paper failed to appear at its regular time a week ago yesterday. Most recent, however, was the rejection by the board of an advertisement from the Dramatic Club early this week...