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...beat the Blitz, argued Wintringham, was for 4,000,000 civilians to teach themselves how to fight democratically, efficiently and freed of the myths and snobbery of military convention. The only way to meet total attack is total defense. Britain must fight now not to the last Frenchman, not to the last British soldier, but to the last courageous Briton...
...DEATH MAKES TEN -Carter Dickson-Morrow ($2). Thuggee on the blacked-out Edwardic, Britain-bound with munitions and nine passengers. Lying doggo in a remote cabin, Sir Henry Merrivale, of Intelligence, hears of it by accident, snorts his way below to ponder a lady's corpse, a vanished Frenchman and duplicate thumbprints. First-rate puzzler...
...Library. According to the classifications made by Professor Post, French belongs to the "more American" group of sculptors; the continental influence is less discernable in his work than in statues by men like Gutzon Borglum and Barnard, who were strongly affected by the formful litheness of Rodin, the magnificent Frenchman...
Then Authoress Boothe went back to England. While waiting for a plane at Le Bourget, she found something unique in Europe's spring-a man who knew what the score was. He was a Frenchman. "Do not despair, madame," he said, "I do not despair. . . . This is a world revolution, and when we people of the democracies see what we have lost in money and life and human dignity by not sticking together, we will start our own counterrevolution to unite the world." He had been one of the last survivors in a trench at Verdun. " 'Since that...
...Frenchman by birth, Morize served as a lieutenant in the French army during the first war. In 1917 he was sent to Harvard through an exchange plan which provided veterans to train the officers in the colleges of this country...