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...SEARCHLIGHT on SPAIN-Penguin Books Limited, Middlesex, England...
...with headlights glaring and horns shrieking-formed a traffic jam for a mile along the River Maas. The middle-to-do on bicycles pedaled vigorously along in their own continuous stream of traffic. The little-to-do on foot crowded the quays, staring into the beam of a great searchlight. Broad Dutch faces beamed, deep Dutch shouts rose louder than the shrieking horns. For slowly, a great new ship, floodlit from stem to stern, passed down the middle of the river outward bound for New York...
After spending most of 1937 in and over most of that country, my head nodded affirmation-wound up wagging wistfully for those Americans who may be trying to do anything in Iran. They will pay for your searchlight reporting...
...getting straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over a dark road. It admits that expulsions were carried out on a large scale by 'callous and arbitrary' party functionaries, that the majority of these expulsions were unjustified, and that families were driven from the farms when the fathers had been recruited by State agents...
...Evolution of Physics, Drs. Einstein & Infeld admit that modern Quantum Theory has thrown a very powerful searchlight on the atom, but they are dissatisfied with it as a picture of reality. Quantum Theory makes use of old-fashioned absolute time, with three separate space dimensions. But each particle requires its own three space coordinates. So to describe two particles six dimensions are needed; a description of ten particles require's 30 dimensions. That is too abstract for Dr. Einstein. He thinks four dimensions are enough...