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Europe would not have been ready for another war for half a century after 1918, at the least, had Uncle Sam withheld his assistance -his money and credit...
...news was withheld for several hours. Then President Roosevelt, cruising on the Tuscaloosa in the Caribbean, sent a message to King George VI: "I am shocked beyond measure to hear of the sudden passing of my old friend and your Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian. I am very certain that if he had been allowed by Providence to leave us a last message he would have told us that the greatest of all efforts to retain democracy in the world must and will succeed...
...such passages as this, rather than in the censored dispatches of foreign correspondents, could be read the true picture of Italy last week. Correspondents cabled that news of British victories in Egypt was withheld in Italy, that prices of necessities had almost doubled, that sometimes housewives "get impatient" waiting in queues for rations of charcoal and olive oil. But on the growing social unrest in Italy they could only quote the papers...
Coach Dick Harlow, Captain Joe Gardella, Captain-elect Frannio Lee, and Loren MacKinney will be in the Harvard delegation. The names of the two unsung heroes will be withheld until Dick Harlow introduces them at the banquet...
...American air observer (identity withheld) in Britain recently visited a station of the Fighter Command on a quiet day and was invited to take a turn over the field in a Spitfire. With R. A. F. escort, the American went aloft, was churning peacefully over the countryside when a group of uninvited Messerschmitts dropped in for a dog fight. The R. A. F. flew off to fight. In the interests of neutrality, the lone American streaked for the field, was gleefully pursued by a pot-hunting Nazi. When the bullets began to zip past him, the American abandoned neutrality, flipped...