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...started for home he heard of ominous events in Manila. There Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Britain's Far Eastern Commander in Chief, had conferred with Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, and General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. military adviser to the Philippines-doubtless on the subject of Anglo-American defense against any move Japan may decide to make...
...bushels of grain; 363,000 tons of wine; 180,000 tons of peanut oil; 135,000 tons of fruit; 35,000 of sugar, 12,000 of cocoa, 5,000 of meat and 3,000 each of fish and rum. The reason why Britain let all this slip through was doubtless reluctance by Winston Churchill to risk a third bloody clash like those at Dakar and Oran, but the problem of food for France had both London and Vichy on tenterhooks...
...this same pregnant strife the United States doubtless will be led, by undeniable interests and aroused national sympathies, to play a part, to cast aside the policy of isolation which befitted her infancy, and to recognize that . . . now to take her share of the travail of Europe is but to assume an inevitable task ... in the work of upholding the common interests of civilization...
...Sofia he sat down for two hours with Boris. Since both men are old soldiers, Colonel Donovan doubtless talked soldiers' language to the Tsar. And since Bulgaria waited another six weeks before joining the Axis, his language must have been somewhat effective. It was during his stay in Sofia that someone pinched Wild Bill's passport (TIME, Feb. 3). But the papers the pickpocket wanted were where he could not reach them...
According to Eliot, there are two main dangers facing the American people at present. The first is the danger of Fifth Column penetration through sabotage groups; the second is the danger that, once Americans recognize the power of the Fifth Column, they will doubtless go on a gigantic "witch-hunt" which will probably hurt many innocent people...