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...week's end Witnesses walked into the lions' den for fair, vowed they would hold their national convention this week at Detroit, lair of that most militant of Catholics, Father Coughlin, and only a river away from forbidden Canada...
...first 50 pages, readers may squirm at Osbert Sitwell's mannerisms (which include frequent use of the word "alas"). For the remaining 265 pages they may enjoy his style, which is elaborate, delicately colorful, at times moving. His impressions of Angkor Wat in French IndoChina and the Forbidden City in Peking have an atmosphere such as might now be found in the report of a traveler of the Fifth Century A. D. who first examined the ruins of Babylon and then went on to live in the decaying grandeur of Rome...
Given a greater reception than even Wellington had had, vindicated as Queen in a summer-long session of the House of Lords, brash Caroline pushed her triumph too far. Forbidden to attend the Coronation, she tried to enter Westminster Abbey and was hooted by the crowd. Broken in spirit, perhaps understanding at last what a clown she had appeared for years, she failed rapidly. When news of Napoleon's death on St. Helena reached England, a satellite informed the King: "Sir, your greatest enemy is dead!" "Is she, by God?" cried Prinney, slapping his thigh...
...severe blow. France does not deny it. It was also a severe blow to them. You can read between the lines of their communiques. The German radio must explain to the people the necessity for further sacrifices. Their losses have been tremendous, German women are forbidden to wear mourning; it would be bad for the morale...
Paris itself was declared part of the Army zone. Busses disappeared, crowds were forbidden even on cafe terraces, walking on the public highway was not allowed, "except for the performance of a public mission." Alert for signs of a Fifth Column, authorities posted guards at each of Paris' gates, interned all German nationals (Nazis and anti-Nazis alike) in two huge bicycle-racing arenas, prepared to apply sternly Premier Reynaud's threat that "for every weakness there will be the penalty of death...