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...settle" was as frank an admission of no policy whatsoever as one could give. Had the China Lobby been able to incite as vigorous a policy as our present Vandenberg Policy in Europe, most of our foreign difficulties would be over and we would not be in the grave peril we are now. Unfortunately, this country is going to pay for the weakness of the China Lobby for many years to come. Earl M. Kulp...
...These things," said Group Captain Ward, "are a matter of life & death for every one of us." The sense of urgency and peril convinced Tories and Socialists alike. In the tense debate that followed, not even the Bevanites, who oppose the scope of rearmament, questioned the urgent need to increase R.A.F. appropriations by 33%. The biggest air force estimates in Britain's peacetime history passed the House of Commons without a division...
...Walter Abel, as Captain Mike Dorgan, alternates between swallowing nobly and delivering impassioned speeches into a ship-to-shore phone, which scare the daylights out of his six WAVES. At length, however, his more elevated sentiments blossom forth, and he breaks into a rousing chorus of "For Those in Peril on the Sea." The less said of the rest of the acting the better...
...pilot of the world's fastest airplane, the rocket-pushed Douglas Skyrocket, loosened up a little last week and told a few new facts about how the plane behaves. High above the speed of sound, said Designer Ed Heinemann and Pilot Bill Bridgeman, there is a new peril of the sky: "supersonic...
Just when it looked as if the French and Germans might forget some of their differences in the common peril, an ancient trouble spot set them snarling at each other. The spot: the smoky Saar basin, a tiny wedge of the Rhine valley on the Franco-German frontier. Barely larger (743 sq. mi.) than Allegheny County, Pa., though its population (900,000) is the densest in Europe, the Saar has both strategic position and rich mineral resources, and it has been a tug-of-war ground for centuries...