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Sixteen months ago, Clarence K. Streit (Union Now) proposed a union of democracies against the Nazi tide. Since then, disunited democracies have collapsed like sand castles. This week, in a full-page advertisement ("paid for by a group of American citizens") appearing in the New York Times, Streit proposed "UNION NOW . . . [of] the U. S. A. and the Six British Democracies . . . before it is too late...
...Fontainebleau alumni. Instead of a palace for their studio, they have a roomy, north-lighted barn which last year was Gull Hill School's stable, next year will be its gymnasium. Instead of Paris they have Provincetown. Artist Despujols looks at Cape Cod's scrub pines, sand dunes and squat frame houses with a cheerful eye. Says he: "It is not the Isle de France but it is equally paintable...
Perfidy and avarice have been the two dominating forces ever since Hernando Cortes beached his boat at Veracruz in 1519, planted his cross in the sand and pronounced his classic demand of the natives: "Gold! For we suffer of a disease in the heart that only gold can cure...
Also included of the rolls, according to the reports which they gave on the questionnaire, are a Communist organizer, a writer of "drugstore classics," a laborer, a policeman, a scalp treatment specialist, a milk-bottle-packager, a sand and gravel expert, a wood preserver, a dog caterer, an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, and 17 unemployed, one of whom described himself as "looking for work; hoping for relief...
...forces there. The Dutch Navy-was still in the war, being mostly stationed in The Netherlands In dies. The non-surrender of Zeeland, land of shrimp-fishermen and antique churches, was important to Great B/itain since its deep channels are the only ones on the shallow, white-sand Dutch coast suitable for submarine bases. But by week's end this resistance, momentarily bolstered by Prince Bernhard's return, petered out as the Allies withdrew from the islands...