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Extrasensory perception Investigator Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University asked for the record on Faith Hope Charity Harding, four and a half years old, who is credited with calling the turn on World War II, the German-Soviet Pact, the burning of the schoolhouse in her home town of Trucksville, Pa. Her latest prediction : that President Roosevelt will run again...
...died on both sides and he had only 60,000 men left. Then Elisabeth of Russia died, and her son, Peter III, made peace, returning Pomerania to Prussia. That made the Swedes withdraw. France, bled white by England's attack on her colonies, retreated beyond the Rhine, and exhausted Austria left Frederick the master of Silesia...
...ability to color Wagner's mystical, mountain-glade poetry with just the right shade of Teutonic Weltschmerz, his solemn evocation of all the Nibelungenlied's nature-nourished gnomes and demigods. When Melchior sings, Wagnerites forget the Metropolitan's tattered backdrops and seem to see the green Rhine and the doom-cragged, primeval mountains of Gothic legend...
...Across the Channel in France, political thought is rarely so idealistic. Many Frenchmen think of after-the-war in terms of territorial gains, of a Germany split up into 20 or more harmless States as it was a century ago, of an enlarged France holding both sides of the Rhine...
...lean, dapper Ronald Cross, is a trade agreement with Sweden. Coal and textiles ranked high among Sweden's imports from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden was glad to shift to British textiles. Britain was glad to buy Swedish timber (cellulose for explosives) and the high-grade hematite ore which Sweden used to barge...