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Strength. Comrade Molotov reminded Russia's neighbors that the U. S. S. R. has "grown in strength," and was no longer the exhausted nation of 1921, or even the comparatively healthy fledgling of five or ten years ago. In this estimate all Europe, dictators and democrats alike, seemed to agree last week. For if the Soviet Union was a negligible military power, as many a rumor had it last autumn (see p. 28A), then why all the courting...
Meanwhile Britain is organizing to meet the air threat. Her air armada-pursuit planes, fast Handley Page Hampden bombers-is rapidly being increased as her manufacturing program begins to hit a good stride. The Royal Air Force is equal in morale to the German, its older pilots have had longer training. The British Army's mechanized units (tanks, armored cars), although too few for war strength, are the most advanced in the world. And its officers-neither scholars like the French nor technicians like the Germans-are excellent leaders of men, if only rule-of-thumb strategists...
...Empress of Australia, which carried the King and Queen of England to Canada last month, got them to Quebec two days late because of icebergs and fog. If Their Majesties had crossed last week, they would have been held up longer, for the bergs were crowding thicker into the North Atlantic shipping lanes. The International Ice Patrol reported no fewer than 800-more than in any year since 1912, when one of the 1,019 icebergs sighted that year sank the Titanic...
Benito's Aid. Many suspected that the Premier itched to become a dictator, but Daladier roared theatrically: "Am I no longer a Republican because I insist upon respect for Republican law and order?" But words could probably not have saved him had not Benito Mussolini unwittingly come to his aid. By staging anti-French demonstrations demanding Tunisia, Corsica arid a few other choice bits of French territory, Il Duce gave the Premier his big chance to regain his fast-dwindling popularity. The Premier answered the Italian campaign with a triumphal tour of Corsica and North Africa. Returning, he declared...
...reason why U. S. rural dwellers get poorer medical care than their city cousins is the backwardness of the average country doctor, who does little to keep up with the rapid progress of medicine. Alert young physicians no longer settle in the country, and, according to Associate Professor of Medicine John Barlow Youmans of Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, 10% to 20% of country doctors "will not take postgraduate training on their own initiative, even when opportunities are available...