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Adolf's Warning. Hitler himself may have hinted at the dismissal a week earlier when he attended the state funeral of stanch Nazi General Eduard Dietl and delivered an oration which included a significant appeal and threat to other Wehrmacht commanders...
...existence, a new one was added last week: the Journal of Neurosurgery. It brought news of two new medical materials, fibrin foam and fibrin film. They are made from human blood. For six months, Drs. Franc Douglas Ingraham and Orville Taylor Bailey of Boston have used them to stanch oozing blood and replace lost tissue in brain operations...
Premier Mikolajczyk's more passionately nationalistic colleagues had opposed this much of a concession. President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, a stanch Pilsudski man in his time, noticeably did not attend the conferences, reportedly threatened to resign rather than propitiate Moscow. Die hard General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, commander of all Polish forces, almost certainly threw the weight of the officer caste against conciliation. Many a Polish officer hails from the eastern provinces, thus has a personal reason for standing firm against Moscow...
...Munich days, when Winston Churchill was languishing in the political purgatory reserved for those whom the British consider erratic, he had one stanch and steadfast follower-Irish-born, Australian-educated Brendan Bracken, now Britain's able Minister of Information...
...went - casual, saucy, amateurish, wonderful. For U.S. listeners, there was sadness in almost every line of the broad cast. The doughboys and doughgirls wanted above all to get home, The home front has heard little of this sort of program because of stanch adherence by NBC and CBS to their long standing ban on recorded programs, and an apparent reluctance by the military to promote direct civilian radio contact with troops abroad. In England BBC has long run recordings from far fields, found they have a big and attentive audience...