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Behind the grim, bomb-scarred, brownstone walls of St. James's Palace the Prime Minister met with representatives of Britain's Allies.* Enlarging on a joint resolution to prosecute the war without letup, Winston Churchill made one of the most eloquent addresses of his career. Said...
...accepted the invitation extended it to participate in the race with Cornell, Syracuse, and the Crimson here this Saturday. As a result of the Bengal's decision to be represented on the Charles for the fourth consecutive weekend, the hope of the the Varsity crew squad for a slight letup in practice have been dashed...
From 2 o'clock to 7:30 there was hardly a letup. Numbed by noise and heat, the gun squads kept their pom-poms hammering incessantly. The rest of the crew raced under fire to rescue casualties, take them to the dressing stations. Above them, the few British fighters in the sky hammered away at the bombers, raised their bag to twelve...
...Germans came over last week by the scores and by the hundreds, as Londoners were treated to their twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third consecutive night bombings with no prospect of letup, it became increasingly clear that the Luftwaffe was going for definite targets. By day, the Germans hit not only at and around London docks, power plants, gas works, railroad stations, telephone exchanges, but also went with renewed vigor after ports, industrial cities in the Midlands and north country, even after isolated plants in the open countryside. Late in the afternoon, squads tried to start fires near objectives...
...began to scrawl about the coming of death: "Angina? Pseudo? Raising right hand over head ... hot water . . . relief. Angina . . . pain returning three to five minutes . . . gradual and gradual letup...