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What the French General Staff most fears is a successful policy of peace by Adolf Hitler for the next few years, until Germany is strong enough to fight and win. Last week Chancellor Hitler flung down the velvet gauntlet of Peace in a significant interview with Comte Fernand de Brinon of Paris' Le Matin...
Author Churchill (Marlborough's great-great-great -great-great-great-grandson ) leaves no one long in doubt that his sympathies and family loyalty are alike engaged: he is proud to be the Duke of Marlborough's partisan. His introduction to his hero is like a flung gauntlet: ''He commanded the armies of Europe against France for ten campaigns. He fought four great battles and many important actions. . . . He never fought a battle that he did not win, nor besieged a fortress that he did not take. . . . He quitted war invincible: and no sooner was his guiding...
...skipper of the Black gauntlet had never won the long race home from China to London, the coveted prize of the China tea fleet, though he had come as near as nothing to it; this voyage he swore he would do it. And he was going strong, with good winds, when one foggy night a steamer rammed him. Only one boatload got away before the Blackganntlet sank. Nearest port was at Fayal in the Azores, 700 miles away; Officer Trewsbury thought they had a fair chance of making it till he discovered how much of their boat's stores...
...convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was culture's palmiest day," challenged Gilbert, and the Vagabond took up the gauntlet. It was first in the grotto at Twickenham that he sought the substance of culture, but a high-pitched voice reciting from a rapt bevy of matrons...
Undoubtedly, scores of TIME readers are taking up the gauntlet flung by Challenger Webb and are now setting forth arguments for collecting the War Debts. I shall assume Challenger Webb will go undefeated. On that assumption I put forth this proposal and challenge Challenger Webb to answer. In the event the U. S. cancels foreign governments' War Debts, then the U. S. shall cancel all its Liberty Bond obligations to holders thereof...