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Home for the Hopeless. In the Legion's headquarters at Algeria's Sidi-bel-Abbès, which looks like a set from Beau Geste, Legionnaires speak often with scorn and sometimes with hatred of the nation that hires them. Lili Marlene, sung in German, is heard on their lips more often than La Marseillaise. The 35,000 men of the Foreign Legion offer their lives to France and keep their loyalty for each other. Ask a soldier in Sidi-bel-Abbès his nationality and he will usually reply, "I am a Legionnaire...
Time & again the Legion has been bled white, but the world's hopeless and desperate have always poured in to swell its numbers. The recruit applying at Sidi-bel-Abbès needs no identification papers, and may, if he chooses, keep his past to himself. If he is over 5 ft. 1 in., well set up and seemingly aged between 18 and 42, he will be accepted. Czarist refugees from Russia, Spanish Communists fleeing Franco, ex-members of Rommel's Afrika Corps, embezzlers and down-and-outs from all parts of the globe have sought sanctuary...
Lefty Hank Hamel pitched his first game of the year, keeping the hopeless Engineers completely in check for the first five innings on three hits, and weakening very slightly in the last frames. An M.I.T. attempt to keep the score under 30 succeeded as the game was called after seven innings. Bill Chauncey and Joe Conzelman led the barrage, Chauncey getting four hits...
...disorganized, and that our diplomats there often hindered him. Had our aid to China been as vigorous and proportional to the size of the problems as our aid to Greece, which had similar weaknesses and corruption, and had Chiang still lost, we could then say that the situation was hopeless; as is, we must chalk up this catastrophe to the Administration's lack of interest...
...thoughtful and hardheaded essay on his country's political philosophy. The Irony of American History (Scribner; $2.50) is an odd-sounding title-most native commentaries on U.S. politics stress such words as "challenge," "promise" or "hope." Niebuhr uses his word advisedly. Not so final as tragedy, not so hopeless as pathos, the ironic view is a Christian study of the "unconscious weakness" by which classic American strengths and virtues have subtly developed into shortcomings...