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...could rush out after contracts for war goods, and upset our general business world. We could do that very easily, but it would only mean a lag in total production. It is better to follow a plan...
...Laval and his fellow Rightists, the Front Populaire was responsible for the subsequent degeneration of France. The Popular Front let rearmament lag while it pushed through its reforms. The Popular Front sent to Loyalist Spain munitions needed at home. The Popular Front pushed Italy into the Axis. The Popular Front undermined those institutions represented by the slogan of fascist France: Labor, The Family, The Fatherland. So thought, and still thinks, the Right...
...many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses. The rating of those who ordered it, and then countermanded it, will be even lower. The Germans saluted its departure with a furious effort to sink a battleship from the air, a loud but hollow claim of having done...
...corner. When they sat down again, six had new chairs, there were two new players, and one was out of the game. In new chairs were: > Dapper, round-bellied Sir Kingsley ("Cherub") Wood, 58, who as Air Secretary had been more & more criticized for letting Britain continue to lag behind Germany in production of planes and training of pilots. Both press and House of Commons have been down on him for his secrecy about R. A. F. exploits. Into the very small chair of Lord Privy Seal, a sinecure, went Sir Kingsley...
Later, three more Soviet tankers arrived at Constantsa, and their cargo was unloaded and temporarily stored in tanks provided by the Rumanian Government. This was one way the Rumanians had of pacifying a German Government sorely irked by the lag in Rumanian oil deliveries. But nothing like enough tank cars were available in Constantsa last week to transport the oil on to Germany, and the fact that it was being stored brought out a major secret: Soviet sabotage has rendered almost useless the most direct rail line from Rumania to Germany, which runs for 191 miles through the part...