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...still producing only 351 planes (including commercial planes) a month. It was a week when Adolf Hitler, sending his young men on the errands of total war-his soldiers to invade three peaceful countries without warning, his Fifth Columnists in Belgium and The Netherlands to wreck defenses, sabotage waterworks, jam air-raid alarms, snipe at citizens, seize airports-told them: "The fight beginning today decides the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years!" And it was a week that saw a revolution in U. S. public opinion on World War II, a revolution so swift and sweeping...
...threats from Italy and Russia are concerned, Professor Langer considered that they were negligible at the moment. "Russia may take advantage of a Hitler jam, especially in the direction of the Balkans, and Italy will jump as soon as she is sure of a German victory, but not until then...
Also booked for the evening is the winner of the New England jam session this winter, Tasker Crosson, who is preparing to give a hot half-hour of swing with his 12-piece Negro orchestra...
Space will not permit of dilation on the many all-night, private jam sessions I have attended, listening to the all-star jamming of such gates as Chu Berry, Louis Armstrong, Leon Roppolo, and Jimmy Harrisson. But I have not listened to their improvising purely with my emotions, for me "toujours I'approche intellectuelle au sujet" (always the intellectual approach for any subject). For instance, I am ravished by the celestial ninths which J. C. Higginbotham (Higgy to his friends, among whom I am proud to say I am numbered) plays on that good old slush-pump...
...Finnish war put Mussolini's hand on many a pressure valve. He made a show of sending planes to Finland over Germany's protest and territory. When the Allies seemed on a spot, he called off the British trade talks, got into a jam with Britain over coal, in the end managed to have most of his coal and burn Ribbentrop too. Last week he had everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press...