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...Stubborn Greece and friendly Spain still remain between Hitler and the united Europe he wants. In the Hitlerian timetable their fate was probably due to be settled before Yosuke Matsuoka gets back to Tokyo. His round trip will take at least a month. Last week Germans were told to make no railway trips which are not urgent during April, and Labor Minister Dr. Robert Ley ordered factories to give no holidays between April...
...none of her unwilling provinces does the Third Reich find stiffer, more stubborn resistance than in The Netherlands. Focus of stolid Dutch hatred of the Nazis is a secret society called "Les Gueux" (The Beggars), blamed by the Germans for recent widespread riots. Fortnight ago, breathing brimstone, a German military court sent 18 of the Beggars to face a firing squad, imprisoned 19 more, hoped without conviction it had broken the Beggars' back...
Newshawks (whom he hated) and col leagues last week recalled some episodes of Sir Frederick's turbulent career. He was a stubborn man of strong feelings, sudden temper, trenchant speech. After insulin was discovered in 1921, Biochemist James Bertram Collip was called in to polish up the glandular extraction technique. The stuff began to be called "Collip's extract." Banting leaped on Collip in the university halls, threw him down, banged his head on the floor, bellowed: "So, you will call this 'Collip's extract,' will...
...World War I, Banting, who served with the Canadian forces, was wounded in the arm. Surgeons told him that if it was not amputated he would die. Stubborn Fred Banting said, "I'm going to keep that arm," and he did. When World War II broke, he was too old to fight but he wanted to help. Turning up in Ottawa in dowdy clothes spotted by cigaret ashes, he promoted a laboratory for aviation research. Rumor had it that he was working on ways to prevent "blackouts" (brief losses of consciousness) in fighter pilots pulling out of steep dives...
...known last week that Dr. Banting was not immediately killed in the crash, but was able to bandage the injuries of Captain Joseph Mackey, the only survivor. When he had done that, he lay down on a bed of broken branches, covered himself with his overcoat, and stopped being stubborn...