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...theory that nothing is so striking as evidence turned against the testifier, the two editors have complied a volume of 135 pages of quotations from Nazi publications and speeches. Hitler's own book, "Mein Kampi", has been sliced up into endless short paragraphs. These, which contain some of The Loader's most warlike statements, have been placed side by side with excerpts from Hitler's Peace Speech of October 14, 1933. Now since the latter was delivered in an effort to allay the fears of Europe that was aroused by Germany's announced intention to rearm, inconsistencies between the autobiography...
...line of grouse butts-little crescent shaped turf bunkers facing the grouse coverts. Three-quarters of a mile away the beaters started moving toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts. Hundreds of birds fell, hundreds more escaped to fly again another...
...infantry rifle perfected by General Thompson was last week awarded the British War Office prize of $15,000 and will now be tried generally throughout the British Army. A rifle for each soldier to carry, to fire aimed shots from the shoulder without pausing to reload, the Thompson self-loader differs from a machine gun in that the trigger is pulled for each shot instead of held down for a continuous stream of lead. Rid of the necessity for bolting a new cartridge into the firing chamber between shots, as in hand-loading rifles, a soldier...