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...Four miles up, R.A.F. raiders circled over northern Italy. Static electricity in the sub-zero night sky flashed brilliantly around their ships. Inches of snow gathered inside one plane's front-gun turret. Again & again the bombers struck at Turin, which had already suffered 23 raids since Mussolini made the error of going to war. Early in the week the bombers lit King Vittorio Emanuele's Royal Arsenal with flames that licked so high that the crimson reflection shimmered on the snowy peaks of the Alps. Back again the next night, they dropped more two-ton bombs into...
...front is now static, reports from Allied Headquarters said, with only patrol activity as both sides endeavor to replace losses in battle that cost the Axis at least 20 tanks including six in the heavy fighting of Dec. 6 when the enemy momentarily reached the Allied line...
Leading the issue is Harold J. Laski's devastating criticism of the complacent "leave-it-until-we-win" school of thought. "The eminent English political scientist pulls no punches in charging that American and British Tories have a static conception of victory. Laski holds that the Nazi revolution can be permanently defeated only by stronger revolutionary idea, and that the promise of an economy of plenty is the only truly revolutionary concept which the United States has to offer. Plenty, however, is to Professor Laski manifestly impossible in a set of economic institutions best fitted to profit-yielding scarcity. Changing...
...important fact which apparently had not occurred to the Army: by increasing the size of the static forces in training, the restriction would greatly increase the demands on available (and none too plentiful) war equipment...
...final clinch--with the right man. Brilliant color was splashed across the stage in the scenery and costumes of nineteenth century West Indies. Several imaginative mechanical devices, along with the panorama of color, attempt to liven up the pace. But color cannot move a stationary figure, nor brighten a static line. Bravura in production must have support in the script, and Mr. Behrman has let everyone down...