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...famous Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. He flew over the tawny Colorado Rockies (from Central City, where he attended a frontier music festival, to Denver, where he chinned with stockmen and sugar-beet growers). He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle. He chatted with the San Francisco Chronicle's bumptious young Editor Paul Smith. He talked campaign strategy with Colorado's Governor Carr, Iowa's farm-minded Governor Wilson, National Chairman Joe Martin (by telephone). One night 350 tourists, mostly teachers and young professionals, raised so much...
...Frenchmen might lie, but photographs could not. This picture was incontrovertible proof that Sumner Welles and Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...
World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...
...neutrals received German assurances that their neutrality would be respected. Denmark, mindful of possible German claims on northern Schleswig-Holstein, was not too reassured by a German reference to "problems that may arise between us." In Copenhagen gas masks were issued and blood donors ordered to register at hospitals...
...sight of Governor Dickinson milking the Holstein might better be pictured to inspire our people to milk cows instead of treasuries. At the rate civilization is moving in reverse possibly it is high time we all got on our knees...