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...bombs in the Spanish oranges (TIME, Jan. 24), but the official reaction was not frightening. Anthony Eden assured the House of Commons that he had personally told Spain's Ambassador, the Duke of Alba, of the serious effect which continuing unneutral assistance to the enemy would have on Anglo-Spanish relations, now and later. Eden said that Sir Samuel Hoare in Madrid had received instructions to tell Franco the same thing: But Eden rejected a request for stronger action, saying that oral representation has worked pretty well-in some cases...
...because he had been asking the British too many questions about their vast oil reserves in the Middle East. Still another eye-popping Petroleum News report was that Franklin Roosevelt himself had thought of demanding a half interest for the U.S. in Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. as a quid pro quo for lend-leased U.S. oil, but had backed down before Teheran...
...secretly through her college years at St. Louis' Washington University, got 21 rejection slips from one magazine. (When she became editor of her college paper she printed all 21 rejected stories.) In 1910, 20-year-old, buxom, self-confident Fannie left for Manhattan to do graduate work in Anglo-Saxon at Columbia University...
...were still going on. Fifteen-year-old boys were ordered into the anti-aircraft defense, men who lacked one or more fingers or who had weak hearts were passed by the Army doctors. And women began taking the place of men even in barracks and police stations. After the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa, the retreat of Rommel and the disaster at Stalingrad, hope of victory had almost disappeared. Goebbels was forced to use the technique of killing one piece of bad news with another...
...Chinese in northern Burma had been ambushed and harassed by Jap patrols. The Anglo-American anvil chorus began again to beat out the familiar refrain: the Chinese cannot fight...