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...pressed their offensive northeast of Madrid for a gain of twelve miles, hurtled through in the Cordoba sector 13 miles, and delivered their first major blows outside of Spain proper by sending a fleet of bombers and the battleship Jaime Primero across the Straits of Gibraltar to shell and strafe Ceuta, important supply base in Spanish Morocco which, ever since the war began, has been Rightist. Snug in Gibraltar last week Britons saw dense clouds of smoke erupt from Ceuta, suggesting Leftist success in setting fire to Rightist docks and warehouses crammed with food and munitions...
...made as between a black man and ''some CRAZY black man . . . will rape her, kill her, or both." Which distinction, however, I fear the Negro intelligentsia is going to overlook, as its editors upon whom you depend for information about ALL Negroes as "The Negro" begin to strafe TIME for "goin" 'gainst the race" in its comment on the Birmingham assault. They "solve" the race problem for a living; and categoric language means nothing when it will not permit of reasonable race-problem exploitation by them...
...mimic maneuvers were to bomb the financial district, clean out a defense post at Columbus Circle, strafe the Hotel St. Regis as a theoretical centre of resistance (Navy umpires atop the hotel scored the attack). Formations were temporarily broken as the attackers engaged in imaginary cat-&-dog fights high over the city's craning millions. Proudest witness of the spectacle was David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Charge of Aeronautics, the Navy's prime War ace, whose earnest purpose it is to impress citizens with the necessity for, and perfection of, the Navy...
...Gott strafe Versailles...
...your issue of Nov. 19 you translate "Gott strafe England," as "God Damn England." A far more accurate translation would have been: "God punish England," the meaning back of the word "strafe" being that punishment is merited. Had your version been intended the German would have been one of two expressions, "Gott verdammt sei England," or, "Gott verdamme England." There is quite a difference between invoking punishment and invoking damnation...