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...heaviest bombers, were being constructed. It was an open secret that once her northern base was completed, Japan intended to move south, probably in March or April. Japanese officers and merchants were securing houses in Hanoï on three-year leases "in the name of the Emperor" and forbidding Frenchmen to use the sidewalk in front of them. Even as Indo-China fought Thailand, Japanese commercial planes flew from Saïgon to Bangkok carrying agents and supplies. The Japanese fifth column which had worked effectively in the north had moved on to Saïgon in the south...
...jammed the narrow roads trying to reach the border. When he arrived at Lyon a special railway car was waiting. The diplomatic Admiral, long-faced, forceful, tactful, had come a long way to enter the world's most perplexing diplomatic labyrinth. It was a France in which most Frenchmen believed that their fate depended on a British victory, though a big section of the Government believed a British victory impossible. It was a France that looked toward U. S. aid to the democracies and yet believed that U. S. aid would be inadequate and too late...
...Austria. In a railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, 22 years ago last Nov. 11, a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. In that same railway car, 2419D, at 6: 50 p.m. last June 22, a delegation of Frenchmen signed an armistice dictated by Germany's Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel...
Sons of the Others might have been written for a boys-school literary magazine; certainly it would have been hooted down by college editors. It is a limp, sad affair in which Frenchmen supply atmosphere by calling each other My Old One; Old School Ties meet up in Northern France to drink bubbly, chaff each other about flirting with the French girls, and suffer, with their allies, the boredom of the long winter's "sitzkrieg...
...assist on the play. Later in the same period Al Evarts scored on a long, screened shot for an unassisted tally. This burst of power, however, concluded the scoring for both sides. Although showing signs of improvement, the Freshmen were unable to exert a telling pressure; for with seven Frenchmen in the bastille at one time or another during the third period, Hodder's charges were unable to augment their winning margin...