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...past few days, a towering Dartmouth Indian made off with a half a claim to the 1942 title but recent developments also indicate that he may have to emerge from his wigwam once more this year in an attempt to wrest the remaining 50 per cent from a somewhat stubborn Princeton Tiger. If the battle materializes, it will make Frank Buck's tales listen like a bedtime story...
...tough, stubborn Edouard Daladier, Premier when France went to war, who brought the rattle of tanks into the Riom courtroom. Accused with five others of responsibility for France's unpreparedness (TIME, March 2), Daladier would not be denied. France could have defended herself, said he. He had chapter & verse to prove...
...Churchill failed to utter even a syllable on the one subject uppermost in British minds: the escape of the German ships through the Channel. To his critics he turned what those critics call the stubborn side of his character-the stubborn side which carried Britain through her darkest previous hours: "One fault, one crime and one crime only can rob the United Nations and the British people . . . of the victory upon which their lives and honor depends: a weakening in our purpose, and therefore in our unity. That is the mortal crime...
...threat to Java became more acute as the Japanese, against stubborn resistance, poured more men and planes into southern Sumatra and crushed the last Dutch resistance at Macassar, on Colobes Island just northeast of Java. The Nipponese also resumed bombing assaults on Soerabaja, Allied naval base on Java, and on Bali and Timor, east of Java...
With hunger the Axis has managed to accomplish what it could do with no other weapon-to break the stubborn spirit of the Greek people. Hate no longer snaps from the eyes of famished Greeks; there is no room for hate in lives that are one long, hopeless search for food. The Greek Government has begged for food from the Turks. Said a Greek official: "We are not asking for food that Turks would eat, but for food they refuse...