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...making "Sahara," but they have put him into an exciting and quite credible picture. Bogart, himself, doesn't stand out as he did in "Casablanca." A tough story, it uses the old desert themes (we had to go out for a drink twice) with a Rommel-El Alamein background...
...signs of disintegration in Europe had appeared in earlier months, then subsided. But they had never appeared against such a background as the Moscow Conference and the certainty it gave that Germany will find no escape...
Domestic crisis has forced into the background the nettlesome question of foreign policy. But the outcome of Argentina's domestic struggle would certainly affect her relations abroad. Until the extreme nationalists were overthrown or compelled to back down, she would cling to neutrality, continued relations with Germany, and hemispheric isolation...
Doctrine of Supply. The Japanese Navy has an Occidental background, but its functions are peculiarly Japanese and are often misunderstood by Westerners. Japan's greatest naval figure, Heihachiro Togo, served the apprenticeship to his trade in England...
...Author. Tall, soldierly, Scottish Ian Hay is one of the British writers most read by Britons. His 27 books have had total sales of over three million copies. Few authors have a better background for writing military narratives. A 36-year-old lieutenant in the famed Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Author Hay emerged from World War I a captain, from the Battle of Loos with the Military Cross. Says Hay: "I think I was given the M.C. for being the only survivor." His First Hundred Thousand became so popular in the U.S. in 1915 that Author Hay was later sent over...