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...chaos which had engulfed much of the world by December 1940 was no more than a phase of the challenge to the world's two great sea powers, Great Britain and the U. S., and to Anglo-Saxon civilization. Through the disorder could be perceived the outlines of a new order-not the order of peace, but the final order of battle. The world was choosing sides...
...Britain's refusal to recognize Russia's sphere of influence in the Baltic that caused the breakdown of Anglo-Franco-Russian talks in 1939, and the subsequent Russo-German Non-Aggression Treaty...
...their stately nave & apse, Dr. Sockman's Methodist congregation called on a famed Anglo-Catholic, Medievalist Ralph Adams Cram. Architect Cram is best known for his soaring Gothic fanes-Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at Princeton and West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely...
...came a clue to the withdrawal. General Raishiro Sumita, chief of the Japanese "military mission" to Indo-China, called on pro-Vichy Governor General Jean Decoux and told him that Japan was gravely concerned over "increasing activity of anti-Japanese elements" in southern Indo-China. " 'Free Frenchmen' . . . Anglo-American agents . . . Jewish financiers have resumed activities prejudicial to the New Order." The Japanese professed themselves particularly "disturbed" about the south Indo-China port of Saīgon. Saīgon is only 650 sea miles from Singapore...
...over the heart of Rio it circled, reaching for altitude before heading south. As it neared the shores of Botafogo Bay a twin-engined De Havilland of Argentina's Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co. appeared to the side, drew recklessly closer to the transport. Frantically the VASP pilot waggled him away, but the De Havilland never changed course. Straight for the Heinkel it headed, swerving desperately at the last minute, catching the transport square amidships with one wing...