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General McNair's reference to the rout of Italian troops by Russian airmen in Spain was pointed: In the first Battle of Louisiana, soldiers on the ground had been noticeably more inclined to stop and stare at attacking aircraft than to scatter and try to shoot them down...
...anybody can rout Colonel McCormick in Chicago, Silliman Evans is a good candidate...
...Mayor Edward Jeffries demanding that it be recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for the operators and that it have exclusive use of carbarn bulletin boards. Actually, A.F. of L. was fighting for survival in Detroit, for a C.I.O. drive had already spread over the auto industry, threatening to rout A.F. of L. completely from the country's fourth largest city. Mayor Jeffries, maintaining that the city could not legally sign an exclusive bargaining contract, turned down their demands. Neither would he give A.F. of L. exclusive rights to the bulletin boards...
Words. The blunt phrases of French Fascism's aged favorite were in the megalomaniac strain of all dictators. "In 1917," rumbled he, "I put an end to mutinies. In 1940 I put a period to our rout. Today it is from you yourselves that I want to save you." There was nothing unusual about the rules that Marshal Pétain announced-they came right out of the common totalitarian rule book...
...Germans had crossed the Vistula and were within seven days of victory. After two weeks in the Lowlands, they had reached the sea, were about to shove the British into it at Dunkirk. After two weeks in the Balkans they had taken Belgrade and put the British to rout. But after traveling 250 miles in the first Russian week and 100 in the second, the Germans had not done much more than push the Russians behind their old borders. After two bitter weeks they had cleared only a little beyond the areas which they themselves had, since 1939, handed...