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...story of how invasion was stiff-armed on Sept. 16 seemed timed to bolster public courage-and details of it came to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaver-brook's newspapers from "neutral" sources in Spain at just the right moment. A change in the command of the Home Fleet also well suited the emergency...
...face the fact that Latin-American countries must and will sell to anyone, even Herr Hitler. Above all, we must realize that we can aid all nations to defend themselves, but we can not protect 100,000 miles of South American coast line when we have not got a fleet large enough to protect ourselves. The Western Hemisphere is not the political, cultural, and economic unit envisioned by many Americans...
...Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain's Fleet Air Arm last year, served on the carriers Argus, Furious, Glorious (sunk at Narvik). Most piquant Eagle name: Harry La Guardia of Hartford, Conn. (no kin to New York City's Mayor...
...Henie & Arthur Wirtz) is a vast and chilly vaudeville which slides across 50 tons of ice covering the enlarged stage of the Rockefellers' Center Theatre. Before and behind a curtain composed of 315,720,000 fibres of shimmering glass, a large company of skaters perform a series of fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the human body, and these have never been better exploited, thanks largely to the choreography of Catherine Littlefield & Robert Linden, which avoids boring platoon movements...
...Facing the possibility of a quick British defeat, the U. S. in August: 1. Fortified Bermuda. 2. Sent Sumner Welles abroad on an appeasement mission. 3. Transferred the battle fleet to the Atlantic. 4. Started negotiations with Canada for military cooperation. 5. Began fortifying the Canadian border...