Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noisy, patriotic hullabaloo is Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture. Depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, it ends with a mixture of the Marseillaise, the Imperial Russian anthem and - so reads the score - a terrific salvo of artillery fire. Although most orchestras dub in cymbals and timpani, the 1812 has sometimes been performed with real cannon. Last week in Philadelphia, Conductor Eugene Ormandy's decision to blitz the 1812 gave the Philadelphia Orchestra a cute little publicity story...
World War I was waged on three fronts: land, sea, air. World War II has a fourth: short-wave radio. Last week a German salvo (in Spanish) shelled Catholic Latin America with assurances that Catholicism still fared well in the Reich and in the silence that was Poland...
Yesterday there was thunder on the left. Instead of firing from the hip with its usual mimeographed salvo, the Harvard Young Communist League has this time taken careful aim at a weak point in the Rooseveltian armor and discharged a telling blast. The New Deal foreign policy is the target, and a tempting one it is, even though Mr. Glenn Frank, in his comprehensive anti-New Deal program of last week, passed it by, intentionally or otherwise. Thus beset on two flanks at once, the New Deal will find its leftist critics the hardest to answer. Mr. Roosevelt, when...
...between the Army and R. A. F., so is there friction between R. A. F. and the Royal Navy. Last week Admiral Sir Roger Keyes let go in the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post a salvo at R. A. F.'s general failure to understand and assist the Navy in its problems. In particular he lamented the failure of airplanes to follow up the submarine Salmon's discovery and crippling of a German sea squadron last month. The submarine had to dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip...