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Last week it came the turn of the most ancient country in Europe to undergo the frightful courtship of the Axis. Greece began to feel the squeeze.
By nagging, harrying, wheedling, the Beaver got underlings to assume responsibility. One subordinate whom he bawled out (as he once bawled out Fleet Street editors) wrote a stiff request for transfer. The Beaver read the note, muttered cozily: "My frightful temper," and ordered a dozen bottles of champagne, a dozen...
His underlings like the Beaver now. So does the British public, which considers him as securely settled in his job as Winston Churchill is in his. Critics call him a dictator, point out that the Government would be in a frightful mess if all the Ministries were run like Beaverbrook...
100% or Nothing. The distinction that was made between these visitors was clear, deliberate, sometimes purposely cruel. Only 100% Roosevelt Democrats were welcome. The shock to party oldsters was frightful. Hundreds on hundreds of them went to Chicago personally acquainted with only one nationally-known Democrat, Jim Farley. Now they...
In the old moated castle of Wynendaele, south of Bruges, the pale young man with sunken eyes and rumpled curly brown hair faced another sleepless night. For 14 days he had watched terror-stricken people fleeing across the fertile fields and meadows of North Flanders. For 14 nights he had...