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...German tanks, still packed more firepower than the British, but this advantage was being cut down fast. The British had learned that they could match heavier firepower with tactical skill, smoke screening, ganging up-exactly as three British cruisers had harried the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee to her doom off Montevideo. Tank warfare in the desert resembles sea war in more ways than one: the taking of ground means nothing; the location and destruction of the hostile land fleets everything...
Replacing Old Dob Dob as Governor, General the Viscount ("Tiger") Gort, 55, onetime Chief of the Imperial General Staff, arrived at Malta in the teeth of a heavier-than-usual air attack.* Sworn in while bombs were dropping, by a chief justice whose hand was bleeding, Tiger Gort fell on his face when a bomb crashed close...
Last week he was back at his desk in Washington, tanned and heavier, calm and cheerful. Relaxed in his big black chair, Mr. Hull had the air of a man whose vindication was sure...
Died. Jean Perrin. 71, refugee French physicist, 1926 winner of the Nobel Prize; in Manhattan. A onetime associate of the Curies, famed for his studies of molecular physics, he announced in 1938 that he had discovered evidence of the existence of an element heavier than element 92 (uranium), called it transuranium...
...since Singapore. No one vast loss, but a cumulative pattern of loss darkened the anti-Axis world; the fall of Bataan (see p. 18), disasters and failures in the Bay of Bengal and India (see p. 26), unabated retreat in Burma (see p. 26), the consequent peril to China. Heavier than any one of these tidings was the strain of waiting for the Nazis to loose their spring offensive...