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Paris confirmed that at least one division of French troops was included in the A. E. F., probably Alpine Chasseurs ("Blue Devils"), who rank among the world's most skilled mountain fighters, to match the Austrian Jäger from the other side of the Alps. A brigade of Poles was also sent. London affirmed that heavy artillery, tanks, motorized equipment were plentiful in the armadas moving north. While Germany belittled the entire expedition and claimed to wreak violence upon it from the air, Mr. Churchill's Admiralty claimed to have landed the first Allied wave without losing...
...force doctrine (untried in modern war) says that a pilot may wear out as many as three planes. But pilots eventually wear out too. The number of Ger man training planes is proof that onetime Pursuit Pilot Goring has not forgotten this lesson. Germany's training equipment is about 25% greater than that of the Allies, and it is a safe guess that it is being used to turn out replacements at a pro portionate rate for the oil-smeared, fire-bitten men who will go down if the air war is begun on a full-dress scale...
...lands throughout the whole of Saudi Arabia. This plum fell to Standard Oil Co. of California last summer-almost unnoticed, since U. S. citizens were then so busy watching the European volcano burp. What soft-collared, spatless Standard businessmen had achieved was signal defeat of top-hatted Japanese, Ger man and British diplomats who had been struggling for years to win this Near East prize...
...work in Finland accomplished, irrepressible General Mannerheim wanted to march his army into East Karelia and move on Petrograd in conjunction with the British Murmansk expedition. But the White Government, grateful to Ger many for her help in the civil war and thinking she was winning the World War, vetoed any cooperation with England. Mannerheim resigned in a huff and the newly elected Regent, Per Svinhufvud, asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. The Kaiser proposed his brother-in-law, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, who was promptly elected by the Finnish Diet. Next thing...
Hans Albrecht Bethe likes skiing, economics and riding on trains, but spends most of his time mulling over theoretical physics. Last summer he married Rose Ewald, daughter of a distinguished Ger man theoretical physicist exiled in Ireland. At Cornell, Dr. Bethe lives with his wife and mother in a cottage in Cayuga Heights. He does most of his work in an easy chair in the living room. Tools : a stack of reference books, a batch of paper, a slide rule, a fountain pen, a powerful brain...