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...Robert Anthony Eden served in World War I as a captain, was decorated for valor (Military Cross), came out a Brigade Major, remained a major in the Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force. Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot and practically...
...want to go in there yet." On the very threshold of the promised land, Vag found himself frustrated. Muttering grimly about "a pesky younger brother," he sat down on a bench. But Billy, instead of getting better, felt worse and worse; finally Vag thought discretion the better part of valor, and he took Billy down the corridor towards the exit. As he left the fragrant Garden he kept wishing that he had eaten all of Billy's hot dog while...
...Chairman of the Settlement's Municipal Council. For 17 months since Japan took Shanghai, said Mr. Miura, anti-Japanese newspapers in Chinese and English had been publishing matter highly offensive to Japan. It would be nice if they stopped. In a noteworthy display of the better-part-of-valor, Chairman Franklin "agreed to take appropriate measures"-suppress them...
Whether or not surrender was the best means of salvation, it was the better part of valor. In the south, through Córdoba and Toledo, the Franco main armies were reported advancing, meeting with no resistance. At Valencia it was reported that Loyalist troops had been ordered to withdraw without risking further bloodshed. All that seemed to remain was Franco's own triumphal entry into Madrid and the mopping up of the south, a procedure that in Catelonia required only a few weeks following the collapse of Barcelona...
Gannett (debating with Ickes on the Town Meeting of the Air program): "My answer is emphatically yes. . . . With what courage and valor editors have fought! Their plants have been bombed and burned; they have been punished and shot. ... In Europe men who criticized the government had . . . their tongues slit, ears cut off. . . . There has been no suppression of Mr. Ickes...