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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Pacific, which centers on Oahu, "the most formidable maritime fortress and naval outpost in the world," we are safe from the Land of the Rising Sun. In the words of Major Fielding Eliot, America's prolific number one military critic, "we can, if we have to, direct such an attack against Japan as will be a deadly threat to her security, while Japan cannot do the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. NAVY GOES TO WASHINGTON | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

...Within a few days the entire Narvik region should be ours again," said the authorized Norwegian military spokesman in describing furious fighting in the full-force attack to wrest Narvik from the Germans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

...small States is past. . . I shall have ... a Northern Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. If they don't like it, they can try to drive me out. In any case, they will have to bear the main burden of attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Why Hitler Did It | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...George Sam Bel, a courtly Creole. Last year, shortly before the new hospital was finished, Dr. Bel died. New Orleanians whispered that he had killed himself, suspected that he was involved in some dark construction scandal. But the elderly heart specialist, his colleagues proved, was felled by a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Orleans Hospital | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Content of this little come-on was merely an attack on the Pierre Louys book, but Self-Publicizer Konyali soon got it in the neck. The real Aphrodite was acquitted of obscenity charges, Konyali and the Public Prosecutor were both flayed in Cumhuriyet (The Republic), Turkey's leading daily. Last week the Prosecutor, fuming, had brought suit against 19 separate newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aphrodite in Turkey | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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