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...these so-called "neutral" military observers who frequently pontificate in your footnotes? Are they the same false prophets and professional propagandists who told the American people that the French Army was the best (sic) in the world and that the Maginot Line was impregnable? Wow they tell us that the riff-R.A.F. pilots are superior to the Germans and Italians [TIME, Aug. 19]. Whence comes this sudden superiority...
...symbolize Russia's new self-reliance, self-reliance did not mean isolation. Russia was still vulnerable, and the greatest, most imminent threat to her security was Germany. To the Kremlin, in the tense summer of 1939, it looked as if Great Britain and France were trying to sic Hitler on Russia. While Britain stalled and dragged out the treaty negotiations, meanwhile trying to appease Hitler over Poland, Russia also turned to Germany...
...more than two inches above her knees--which fits in with the general tenor of the show in not appealing to one's intellectual perceptions. The drama closes with a honey of a finale when Scarlett O'-Lamour stages a walkout, leaving the audience just a touch in doubt (sic) as to whether or not she will ever see Tyrone again...
...Hrdlicka was still not ready to give up. "It's a delusion," exclaimed he. "It does not amount to a scientific demonstration. There are many things that look like [sic] and many things that do not look like, but there is no proof. The geology of the earth is not like writing or even hieroglyphics -it is vague and indecisive. ... I have stopped arguing." He was willing to concede man in North America 7,000 or 8,000 years-perhaps even 10,000-but no more...
Oberstein, who claims to have invented the idea of "swinging the classics," now believes that swing is on the way out: 1) because "you can't make love in a noisy place"; 2) because "improvision [sic] could never last. There isn't enough permanence to it. We have now," says he, "reached the double-entendre era." Rivals in the record business regard Eli Oberstein as a bumptious upstart. But to U. S. Records he is Mr. Big. Says he: "Everybody who is working with me loves...