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...Moslems. A bomb exploded last week on a crowded dockside in Tangier, Spanish Morocco, 40 miles southwest of Gibraltar. When the smoke cleared away, 25 persons lay dead, 60 hurt. The bombs blew apart the luggage of a departing British official. As if by magic, yelling Arabs appeared from nowhere with baskets filled with rocks, began stoning the windows of British business houses. To the radio hopped Axis spokesmen, claiming that the exploded luggage had disgorged British propaganda. London called the episode an obvious Axis trick...
...Sets Bomb In Senate...
Buying a large amount of high explosives, he fashioned on ingenious time bomb whose action depended on acid eating through a cork, and took a train to Washington. His story was that he wanted only to wake the American people up to the damage which explosives like these were doing abroad. At any rate, after wandering unmolested through the empty Senate chambers with...
...bomb in his arms, he set it down in the reception room where it would hurt no body. Then he went outside, waited for the explosion, and hopped a train out of town as soon as he heard the blast...
...there was no room. But not for nothing had Correspondent Allen been able to talk the British into letting him become the Fleet's first correspondent. He followed Bullitt in a commercial plane across Africa. The next two days and three nights Hitchhiker Allen rode in the empty bomb compartment of Bullitt's plane...