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...cheerful, childlike Dutchman with a flair for historical baby talk. He illustrates his genial versions of the horrors of human history with squiggly, screwy pen-&-ink drawings; spices them with amiable prejudices (sample prejudices: against Bushmen, missionaries, Painter Paul Gauguin). In 1921 Author Van Loon hit his historical stride with The Story of Mankind. Last week he confined himself to The Story of the Pacific...
...France from the field of battle, Italy and Germany would annihilate Great Britain "The second phase of the war." This declaration led to the supposition that II Duce would wait for the end of the Battle of France before plunging. Why did he not wait? Why did he stride out on the Palazzo Venezia balcony and make his sententious announcement (see p. 20) just when he did? II Duce gave no indication in his speech of the reason for his timing. The only hint of a reason came from France's Premier Paul Reynaud: "What was the pretext...
Conscription has the sole advantage of preparing the country for future contingencies. Against this must be set the many trenchant disadvantages of the plan. The first and most important is that inauguration of military training would be the biggest possible stride towards participation in the present European war. A huge army is unnecessary for hemisphere defense at present and would only serve to raise the military mentality to the ascendency. A natural concomitant of conscription would be the breeding of a fatalistic attitude. War would take on, for the American people, an inevitability which it does not merit. The American...
...Goethals, out until a week ago with a sprained ankle, has also nearly hit his normal stride again in the hurdles. He will run beside Captain Don MacKinnon in a desperate effort to defeat the strong Eli combination of Squire and Greene...
...Government slowly sold its wartime fleet, the U. S. built not one vessel for the transoceanic trade. Four years ago the Roosevelt Administration hatched the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, an outright subsidy to shipowners. For them, the Maritime Commission began a shipbuilding program which swung into full stride last year. So far 46 vessels have been launched, 37 put into service. Besides the 118 now on order, contracts for 358 others will be let in the next five years...