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What is more, said the Japanese, the gendarmes were slapped when they talked or spat from their bleeding mouths. And they were "forced to squat." "They got," said Colonel Peck drily, "the same consideration and treatment as any man we arrest-including a medical examination...
Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes has a gift for orotund invective with which he delights to smite enemies of the New Deal. Last week he sighted a new enemy, changed his style, and spat out a good old Fourth of July oration. His enemy: totalitarian nations who boast that they are the new, strong people, fresher and more vigorous than the decadent democrats of the U. S. Shouted an angry and Whitmanesque Mr. Ickes. standing before the Washington Monument...
While Britain and Italy spat at each other last week over German coal shipments (see above), and Germany and Britain waited with different emotions for the end of the Russo-Finnish war (see p. 19), Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop suddenly announced a visit to Rome. According to one version, it was so sudden that not even Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano knew the Germans were coming until the day before they arrived. Herr Ribbentrop has a bad habit (for the Allies) of signing world-shaking treaties and pacts when he appears in foreign capitals. British diplomats quickly...
...into Viipuri. Craftily the Finns fought their retreating battle, leaving small rear-guard detachments to hold up the advance while their main force fell back in good order. A ruined town makes the best of all fortifications, and as the Russians entered the outskirts of Viipuri, Finnish machine guns spat tellingly from the gaping windows of the all-but-demolished houses. The invaders had to occupy Viipuri block by burning block...
Into its fourth week went the battle of Viipuri and Finland's second city was now in the battle line. Finnish artillery, wheeled back from the main positions of the Mannerheim Line, spat at the Russians over the heads of Viipuri's defenders. Behind Karelia's beleaguered capital, along the 30-mile stretch of lakes and canals between Lake Saimaa and the Gulf of Finland, other workers were building new defenses. Few people doubted that if Viipuri fell Finland would still fight...