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...retirement would add one more chapter to a life story that in the last 20 years has consisted mostly of recalls from retirement during crises-the defense of Warsaw against the Bolsheviki in 1020, when women kissed the hem of his garment and men hailed him as a savior; Chief of the French General Staff when the full implication of a reduction of the length of compulsory military service had become clear; and finally to take chief command when the Germans had won the Battle of Flanders and were waging the Battle of France. "See Weygand," was Marshal Foch...
...Nazi satellites (see cut). It was a shame, said Henry-Haye, "that a man with the Marshal's record should be subjected to this ridicule." Vichy's Ambassador does not send such cartoons home to France. He knows that most Frenchmen look on the U.S. as the savior of democracy, says he is afraid it would break their spirit if they learned how the U.S. feels about Vichy...
...Wound and the Bow takes its title from the legend of Philoctetes, who was first abandoned by the Greeks during the Trojan war because of a noisome, incurable wound, then sought out by them because of his magically invincible bow-symbol of the man of genius as pariah-savior and of the Gordian interdependence of power and neurosis. The two most important pieces in The Wound and the Bow are studies of that symbol in terms of1) Dickens, 2) Kipling...
There is probably nothing Adolf Hitler would like so much as to be called in to be the savior of Islam. Last week he got his first bid. According to Rome reports, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani asked him, through the mediation of Italian Minister Luigi Gabbrielli, to come and save Iraq. In a desperate effort to stave off the Near East crisis, Turkey offered to mediate the undeclared war, but Turkey was fast being pulled out of its pro-British orientation, and the British, mistrusting Moslem mediation of a Moslem vexation, turned the offer down. If the Iraq Incident...
...Williamson, et al.) to be actually of [John Bunyan], the author of Pilgrim's Progress. Your cut showed but part of the picture; a staff and pilgrim's bottle are really in the left background, and what appears to be a representation of the risen Savior is in the upper right. The portrait belonged to Capel Lofft, who believing it to be of Milton, published an engraving of it in 1792. Lofft, like TIME, was evidently unaware of the authentic Faithorne engraving, which is the National Portrait Gallery's choice among portraits of Milton, although Lofft presented...