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...Parliament and of the editorial board of Punch (funny weekly). Commanding his yacht Water Gipsy he helps patrol the Thames, boasts that all members of his crew are ready for instant action at all times. To prove this, during dinner on board one night, he barked: "Lady Astor overboard!" The steward put down a dish he was passing, plunged over the rail...
...Colleoni paused long enough to trade salvos with the Sydney. This was fatal. A shell struck into her boiler room, and crippled her so that British destroyers could close in and polish her off with two torpedoes. The destroyers then rescued 545 officers & men who had stripped and jumped overboard. Italian dead & wounded totaled about...
...purred in quietly to the steel harbor net, which it passed over safely. Through the thick darkness Commander Bristowe felt his way undetected to the looming bulk of the Richelieu, and around under her stern. There to damage the giant's propellers and steering gear, his men put overboard a batch of depth charges so powerful that, when they went off, the harbor-heaving concussion knocked dead both of Bristowe's launch motors. As French shouts, searchlights and anti-aircraft fire filled the thinning night, the launch wallowed helplessly. Just as a French patrol boat spotted...
...situation last fortnight when one spearhead of the German Army of Attack darted across The Netherlands to Rotterdam. Three more lanced through above and below Liege, two more above and below Sedan. When General Guderian unleashed his Army, all Allied preconceptions of these columns' speed and power went overboard. As did their machines of the air, the Germans' land machines so overwhelmed the Allies that only courage and discipline saved "strategic retreat" from immediately becoming "rout...
...what would become of democracy in such an America? Already we are hearing cries of "throwing overboard the luxury of social security in order to finance our defense." Let us insure ourselves before disaster strikes; let us give our economic aid to the forces of stability while there is yet time. William B. Shallck...