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...World Crisis, his brilliant history of World War I: "Open the sea cocks and let our ships sink. In ... half an hour at most, the whole outlook of the world would be changed. The British Empire would dissolve . . . Europe after one mighty convulsion passing into the iron grip and rule of the Teuton. . . . There would only be left far across the Atlantic, unarmed, unready, and as yet uninstructed, America to manage singlehanded law and freedom among men." He could not free himself from a sense of doom...
...pivot post Burgy Ayres seems to have cinched the starting honors, but Lone Star Dietz should get a substantial taste of the Indian warfare. Dick Pfister evidently has a death grip on the right guard post and will most probably get the call to open tomorrow's contest...
...invasion has been the usual friendly American sympathy for the underdog. But now our interest in China goes much further than this. Now the top dog is snarling at us, and every intelligent news reader knows what a tight spot we shall be in if the underdog relaxes his grip...
...They reasoned that this was still a war of blockade. Britain, with Canada and the U. S. behind her, was still blockading Hitler's Europe, and, by the grip on Gibraltar and Suez, Mussolini's Italy. The deadlock in the Battle of Britain, apparently, was about to bring a new Axis strategy into play against this blockade. Hitler undoubtedly visited Mussolini at Brenner Pass last week to talk strategy (see p. 39). German papers began to argue, not without a certain petulance, that Britain could be beaten without a costly invasion. Could it be possible that...
Another U. S. folk group, the Italian-Americans, preoccupies John Fante, author of Wait Until Spring, Bandini in Dago Red (Viking; $2.50). It is perhaps 1940's best book of short stories: the sort many people wish that William Saroyan, with a grip on himself at last, would write. With the emotional richness of his race and his Church, Fante writes mostly of his childhood-First Communion, baseball ambitions, parochial schools, his volatile father, long-suffering mother-always an easier trick than to write well of the adult world. But his best tale, "A Wife for Dino Rossi...