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...going to get a lot more bombing. . . . It's the noise that frightens. . . . Don't be frightened. Be angry. It's a good cure." And Alfred Duff Cooper, the propaganda chief, quoted on the radio 42 lines of Poet Thomas Babington Macaulay's Armada, to remind the British how, with bonfires instead of blackout, they reacted to invasion once before...
Most discussed war-financing nostrum in Britain today is John Maynard Keynes's plan for forcing all Britons above the subsistence line to invest fixed percentages of their income in blocked savings accounts. Last week financial men could remind themselves that the Keynes plan has a faint parallel in the U. S. Released were current figures on Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s own public thrift campaign: U. S. Savings Bonds. Voluntary and not for war, the Morgenthau "baby bonds" nevertheless permit the "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" third of the U. S. population to share a nation...
...lanterns hang from the cottages of Italy and Switzerland to remind the passers to pray for peace. This is a war measure that has obtained for centuries. . . . When nightly I come to my prayer for peace I never know how to frame...
Except for the predominance of khaki in the stands and air-raid instructions on the programs, there was nothing to remind 100,000 Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...
...ambiguity of the mission. Punch printed an old-fashioned cartoon showing Mr. Welles dealing in magic and spells (see cut). A hard-bitten British officer, holding up the Conte di Savoia for 13 hours while Sumner Welles sat in his cabin writing his report, took one last occasion to remind the U. S. of Britain's position: "This is war," said he. "There might be somebody aboard whom we want to take...