Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...emerged, got his footing, clapped a straw hat on his head with one hand and moved up the ramp. At the top he turned and waved his hat in response to another little clatter of handclaps. Thus the President set off last week on his second tour of the Eastern seacoast. In a week in which the long-threatened Battle of Britain had reached a new pitch (see p. 21), he was going to look at the budding evidences of budding U. S. Defense...
...Since the "representative Indians" would be viceregal stooges hand-picked by Lord Linlithgow, and since the War Advisory Council would have no power over the Imperial General Staff, India gained virtually nothing. With Italians driving into Somaliland, and the enemy threatening Aden and therefore Britain's Near Eastern oil lines, India's aid was last week more vital than ever...
Italy's plan to join her eastern and north central holdings in Africa at Britain's expense rests secondarily on her efforts to enlarge the borders of her most recently acquired and indigestible piece of African pie: Ethiopia. Viceroy there and Governor General of Italian East Africa is the ablest member of the Royal Family, Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall...
...bases, the Italians attacked at four places along their 2,000-mile fiunt from the Red Sea to the Indiaa Ocean. On July 5, with artillery, bombing; planes, tanks and 3,000 Askari troops they assailed and took Kassala. Railhead for the line to Port Sudan, Kassala is the eastern gateway (Khartoum the western) for the Sudan's rich cotton plantations. It commands the valley of the Atbara River, a Nile tributary down which an army would move to strike at Egypt and Suez from the south. Last week the Italians struck deeper into the Sudan from Kassala, bombing...
Givers of the pageant were the 167 Mormon missionaries to the Eastern States, in Palmyra for their annual conference. Mormon evangelists are young men and maids especially chosen by their bishops. They support themselves while proselyting, and generally serve a two-year period. Some missionaries are themselves converts. One such at Cumorah was blond, square-set Hollywood bit player Burnett Ferguson, who plans a return to acting when his evangelistic stint is done. Missionary Ferguson, whose last cinema appearance was in Dawn Patrol, had a fiery role last week as the prophet Abinadi, was burnt at the stake...