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...published, only last week, when the two commanders were awarded the coveted Victoria Cross. Of the third Tiddler, nothing is known, except that just after the Tirpitz was torpedoed a great explosion was heard farther down the highwalled fjord. Apparently, past the worst of the barriers, she and her gallant crew had found a mine...
Hollywood, in its treatment of "our gallant Russian ally" as usual, comes with too little, too late. Evidently still punchy from the conviction that they are flying in the face of all convention by writing about Russia at all, they are content to abandon as irrelevant all considerations of artistic merit. They are introducing Russia to the American people; that's enough to justify "Mission to Moscow" and "The North Star." That Russia is no longer taboo in the drawing rooms, and that the more conservative journals discuss thte Red Army quite freely, seems to have escaped them...
...walked straight to the big, black Presidential limousine. Said he: "This is an un anticipated honor, Mr. President." Said Franklin Roosevelt: 'We'll give you the keys to the city." More & more nosegays fell at the feet of old Mr. Hull. Winston Churchill termed him a gallant eagle; Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden called him the father of the Moscow Declarations' security clause. The left-wing U.S. press, which had clubbed him over the head for months, stammered apologies...
...That gallant old eagle, Mr. Hull . . . flew far on a strong wing. . . . No airy visions, no party doctrines or party prejudices, no political appetites or vested interests must stand in the way of providing before the end of the war for food, work and homes. . . . Unless the hand of Providence is stretched forth by some crowning mercy, 1944 will see the greatest sacrifice of life. . . . British and American manhood, striving in generous emulation, true brothers in arms, will attack and grapple with the deadly foe. ... I say that our supreme duty-all of us, British and American alike...
...Like Eli Whitney, Paul Revere is famed for the wrong thing: he never completed his gallant ride, but he learned how to make and roll copper and brass (British monopolists thought they had that essential art sewed up) and he pioneered the theory that high wages mean high production and profits. The $2 a day he paid his workmen was infinitely more of a shock than Henry Ford...