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...visitor in Chungking for the last bomb-cracked month has been Lin Yu-tang, whose interpretations of China to the West (My Country and My People, The Importance of Living) once offended high Chinese officials because they were so honest. Slight, middle-aged but boyish, quick to smile, master of four languages and scores of moods, he is China's philosophic Ambassador at Large...
...French Coast U. S. correspondents did see prodigious preparation and equipment for an air war the like of which was never launched before. Diligent bomb harassment by the Royal Air Force delayed this preparation, but early in August it was complete and the Luftwaffe's master, Marshal Erhard Milch, sent word through his chief, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, to the Führer that the Luftwaffe was as ready as it would...
...London while Nazi bombers laid eggs on the outskirts, carrot-topped, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (Hearst's International News Service) danced with excitement on a roof in Fleet Street. But on Dover's cliffs a bomb fell three yards away from Cameraman James Gemmell (British Paramount News), gouged a crater 20 feet deep, failed to explode. Frank Butler (I. N. S.) was hit by falling machine-gun cartridge cases, unharmed...
...consumer (80,000 tons a year) is the U. S.; No. 2 is Europe. Living in Spain since war began, Patino wanted to keep in with both sides. He tried to scare the Germans by dangling his tin elsewhere, but bit his nails for fear they would just bomb his Liverpool plant. He changed his mind half a dozen times about whether to come to the U. S. When the State Department failed to jitter at his Nazi flirtations, made him no offers, he came anyway...
...coastal ships, sank three. The convoy continued westward down the Channel. About 9 a.m., 50 Junkers dive bombers, with Messerschmitt fighters swarming above them, swooped out of the morning sun. Some of the ships were towing barrage balloons which the Germans had to shoot down before they could dive-bomb. Anti-aircraft fire and squadrons of angry British Spitfires and Hurricanes hurtled up from the British coast. The sky spun crazily with dogfights, plummeting wrecks, cripples smoking off for home. At noon an even larger formation of Germans struck again at the convoy, and between...