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This entire controversy reminds one very much of the following story: The automobile of a tourist motoring through Poland became stalled; he sent to the nearest town for a mechanic. The latter, on arriving, looked over the engine, gave it one hit with his hammer, whereupon it functioned perfectly. In response to the query as to what was due him, he asked ten zloty, to which the motorist said: "Surely not ten zloty for giving the car one hit with the hammer!" "Oh, no!" replied the mechanic "one zloty for hitting the motor, and nine zloty for knowing where...
...factor in the next war will be the motor. . . . Now, just as an airplane covers in an hour a distance which could be covered 25 years ago only by 20 days of marching, just so a mechanized army passing the frontier . . . can penetrate 40 leagues in the enemy country if it overcomes the obstacles it finds...
...Britain. Gone was the bulk of her vast holding of international securities ($1,076,000,000 in the U. S. alone); the last bundle of engraved paper to be rescued was lugged from Amsterdam by a British officer who pushed off from Ijmuiden to England in a commandeered motor boat after Amsterdam had fallen. Gone was her stock of diamonds: the last store, worth several million dollars, was snaked out of Amsterdam to London by a diamond merchant after the terror had struck...
...Wandering Lake. In 1933 Sweden's famed Explorer Sven Hedin was hired by the Chinese Government to explore the Silk Road, ancient caravan route of Marco Polo fame. Purpose: to build a motor highway connecting Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) with Soviet Russia. (Completed in 1938, this 2,000-mile highway soon became one of China's two last links with the outside world.) The Wandering Lake is Sven Hedin's third book to result from that 1933-35 expedition (others: The Flight of the Big Horse, The Silk Road...
...impromptu navy, which transported a dozen canoes overland to Lake Waban, held the limelight for twenty minutes until the combination of rock-throwing from the shore and the disconcerting effect of a speeding motor launch in their midst forced the Harvardians to beat a hasty but dignified retreat...