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Battle on Bluff. In the mixup Howard hauled out every trick in the book, among them "chopping the throttle" (to slow down abruptly) and dropping the flaps (to turn a tighter circle). He began with all four guns going, finally was reduced to one. He wound up his day, all ammunition spent, scaring off a rocket-carrying Dornier 217 by plain bluff, and then scooted for home...
...Marshal Pétain, who had been keeping to himself since the Germans banned his radio proclamation of Vichy "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), broadcast a feeble plea for internal order last week. From a well-placed Vichy source came a circumstantial account of Pétain's latest mixup with the Nazis...
French Advance. When troops attempted to arrest the rump officials in their hill-country headquarters, Arslan whistled up his Druse riflemen and for three hours skirmished with French forces. The mixup ended when British troops moved in between and clamped down...
...Danube Mixup...
...only on the battlefields of the world did democracy seem to be on the run. At home, there was bungling of the manpower, problem, of the gas and oil mixup, of racial disputes, of censorship and news dispensation. In Congress, politics played havoc with such measures as the lowered draft age and the tax bills. On the education front, college officials raised their voices in a pleading chorus crying for a blueprint from the War Manpower Commission, and Washington answered with equal vehemence that the job should be done by the colleges. Enticing reserve plans were set up by every...