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...These elements feel it is hopeless to try to convince Franco to step out peacefully. He is stubborn, will not move. But he seems to believe somehow he can hold on, that he can meet this challenge, or perhaps move into some sort of compromise position in which he would retain his power...
Coldly General Weygand analyzed the situation. Hopeless, he said; nothing to do but give up. Churchill recalled the dark spring days of 1918, when the British were in desperate straits around St. Quentin and Marshal Pétain dispatched a force in the nick of time. Churchill reminded the old Marshal that bold action then brought victory on Nov. 11. Yes, said the Marshal, but where is there a British force to save the French today? Churchill had no answer; Dunkirk had robbed him of everything except the will to fight. It had robbed Pétain of everything...
Lung Operations. Most dramatic is the removal of whole lungs (pneumonectomy) or parts of lungs (lobectomy)-a drastic operation which sometimes completely extirpates the disease. This operation was once so hazardous (about 35% mortality) that it was used only in otherwise hopeless cases. But Drs. Richard Overholt and Norman Wilson of Boston told the American Trudeau Society that the technique has now reached a point where the operation "should be considered" early in tuberculosis and not used as a last resort...
...farmer became Catherine's lover (they planned to marry after her divorce). Life ended again when the stallion was accidentally electrocuted, when her washed-out but repentant husband came to beg her to come home. Catherine decided that her new-found lover had better share a hopeless grave with the dead stallion...
...such case was two-year-old Patricia Malone (see cut) of Jackson Heights, Queens. The New York Journal-American, which begged enough penicillin from Dr. Keefer to save her life from staphylococcic septicemia, last week won the Pulitzer Prize for the story. After that, the whole nation watched one "hopeless" case after another get well...