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...week, the 1940 political campaign had been conducted in such a rarefied ideological atmosphere that it seemed, to many a voter, almost unAmerican. The whole thing is too intellectual, the voters seemed to say, and the hell with it. Last week affairs took a sharp down turn into the realm of barroom argument. Anybody could understand and appreciate such minor campaign issues...
...talk for the day, for "Mr." Russell, as he is addressed at Harvard, does not wish to dwell upon the subject of the war. And outside of the war, philosophy remained the only serious topic which could have been discussed. Philosophy was not discussed because Mr. Russell's philosophic realm is above the heads of the untutored proletariat...
...Holy (German) Empire." Italy was assigned to "protect and guide" the provinces of southeast France. The Basques and Catalans on both sides of the Pyrenees were united and made independent. A "Great United Kingdom of The Netherlands" encompassed Flanders and the northern French provinces. "Peace and the boundless realm of the Emperor were finally secured," wrote Poet Thomasset. Ulrich, with mighty Germany as a bulwark against the east, turned his eyes to the west, where lay "a mammon empire-America...
...last week-"that it has not the technical means for rapid and decisive counter-attack." He urgently demanded "an Army of shock troops with lightning-like speed and formidable power in artillery . . . modern tanks which will go 40 kilometres an hour in flat country." But those defenders of the realm, Blum, Daladier, Gamelin, would not listen...
...banks of the Somme last week as Britain's knights and lords fell with day laborers and farmers in the grim cavalcade of war. True to the ancient tradition that the aristocracy pays for its privileges on the day of battle, the first-born of the realm marched, as in many crises of Britain's turbulent history, to fulfill their destiny. So rapid was the depletion of the aristocracy, already thinned and impoverished by death and death taxes in World War I, that the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood decreed that for the duration death...