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Died. Basil Liddell Hart, 74, eminent British military writer whose radical theory of tank warfare was adopted by the Germans in their blitzkrieg through France; of a stroke; in Medmenham, England. A World War I veteran, Liddell Hart predicted that armor would be the key to conflicts of the future, and in the period between wars fought vainly to have his "expanding torrent" method of attack adopted by the British army. History, of course, proved him correct; according to Rommel, the British would have avoided most of their early defeats in World War II had they listened to Liddell Hart...
...David a great many things happened in London one day recently. But for him, Gladys, the stenographer, could not have met Mr. Johnson, and the Paddington Murder Case would have remained unsolved. But for David, Lord Midhurst would not have escaped from Mr. Fink's clutches. Lady Hermia Medmenham, Mr. and Mrs. Rivington, Mr. Gawthorne (the author has a genius for names), and scores of other people would have gone on in a very pleasant rut,--but for David...
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