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What prevented liberal Englishmen and Americans from thinking Chesterton was right was, for one thing, a disagreement over what constitutes civilization. To Chesterton, Poland was an outpost of civilization because it was a Catholic nation. To the liberal Western mind, Poland seemed a backward and feudal country, greatly inferior in efficient industrial plant and social services-two modern criteria of civilization-even to Nazi Germany. To those who like to dispose of other people's affairs by logic alone, the logical conclusion should have been that it did Poland good last autumn to be taken over and "organized...
...building program, and our fleet still has a marked superiority over Nippon's. So long as we maintain that edge, and so long as we hang on to our iron-clad island defense line in the Pacific, which centers on Oahu, "the most formidable maritime fortress and naval outpost in the world," we are safe from the Land of the Rising Sun. In the words of Major Fielding Eliot, America's prolific number one military critic, "we can, if we have to, direct such an attack against Japan as will be a deadly threat to her security, while Japan cannot...
Last month the Japanese Army announced that it had attained its objectives in South China, and withdrew to garrison at Nanning. When the soldiers left their northernmost outpost in Pinyang, they left behind a curious placard. Last week a picture of a Japanese soldier hanging this message under the shelled gateway to the Pinyang County Government buildings reached the U. S. The notice was written in miserable Chinese, but was polite as an invitation to tea under the cherry trees. Literal but less illiterate translation...
...week. Horse racing resumed at Auteuil. British Tommies whipped the French Poilus 36-to-3 at rugby. At the stalemated fighting front, bright skies encouraged reconnaissance flights by both sides, to see what new dispositions the enemy had made during weeks of freeze and fog. For the troops in outpost zones ahead of the Maginot Line and Westwall, patrol duty became more frequent and arduous, first stations busier...
...have no reason to be curious about local news items in Waukegan. But last winter Publisher Moe Annenberg's Nationwide News Service was forced to cut off its racing information to bookmakers and betters (TIME, Nov. 13). A Waukegan newspaper with press wire service could act as an outpost to give Chicago bookies (by telephone) this vital information...