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...Bases. Last week, in his 13th Lend-Lease report to Congress, the President touched for the first time on the key role Lend-Lease may play in postwar commerce. He confidently indicated that the settlement of Lend-Lease balances will be a powerful lever: 1) to guarantee that the raw materials of the world will be available to all comers; 2) to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers...
Jacqueline White, cousin of Frank Knox, started collecting honors. For her pint-sized pin-up pictures she was proclaimed the Wallet Girl of the 13th Armored Division...
Last week the Colombian Senate confirmed (33-to-13) the declaration of Foreign Minister Carlos Lozano y Lozano that a state of belligerency existed between Colombia and Germany. Colombia thus became the 13th Latin American nation at war with Hitler's Reich.* Of the seven others, six have broken diplomatic relations but have not declared war. Only total neutral: Argentina...
Missing in Action. Lieut. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 21, older son of the Ambassador to Britain; after an Eighth Air Force raid on Münster, his 13th combat mission. Fellow flyers reported seeing parachutes float from his Flying Fortress Tech Supply, shot down in an attack by three enemy fighters. A Princeton sophomore when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes...
Williams, now flying a Grumman Avenger torpedo plane from an escort carrier in the Atlantic, was credited with the destruction of three U-boats, "possible damage" to a fourth. His squadron insignia: a Disney-designed Black Cat. He made one of his attacks on the 13th of the month...