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From two different villages on the Isle of Wight came reports to the "Nature Correspondent" of the Times of the first spring cuckoo. In the National Gallery an exhibit entitled "Rebuilding Britain" showed flea-sized houses with modern flying buttresses. Britons looked, muttered: "No scullery, no privacy...
Died. Leonard Raven-Hill, 75, Punch cartoonist for 40 years; on the Isle of Wight...
...flown to Britain to "share" his sins. > Said Parliament's court jester, A. P. Herbert: "One day it may be these islands will shake to an unprecedented thud as Reich Marshal Göring-a parachute at each corner-settles on and perhaps submerges the Isle of Wight or Skye." > A London newsie chalked on his placard "Extra! Return of Loch Ness Monster." > Other professional and amateur British humorists punned at length. Examples: Mein Dekampf, Your Hess is as good as mine, Hess Sir, That's My Baby, Trojan Hess, Hessteria...
...Isle of Wight, a Messerschmitt plummeted straight down a well...
...weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle of Wight were in foreign hands, or Americans if Sandy Hook were in the same position?" Next move, he said (without guessing whether it would be diplomatic or military) would be Russia...