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...Fleet Street's newspaper row got its share one night. The Herald, which was bombed by a Zeppelin in World War I, was hit again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...
...before Britain was definitely on her back, plus the probability of a complete U. S. embargo on scrap iron and gasoline and possible action by the U. S. Navy, were sufficient to cool Japanese hotheads. While waiting for Britain's defeat and the departure of the U. S. Fleet to guard the Atlantic ramparts, Japan continued to present demands to the impotent Vichy Government, which had already virtually ceded French Indo-China...
...nagging, harrying, wheedling, the Beaver got underlings to assume responsibility. One subordinate whom he bawled out (as he once bawled out Fleet Street editors) wrote a stiff request for transfer. The Beaver read the note, muttered cozily: "My frightful temper," and ordered a dozen bottles of champagne, a dozen bottles of brandy, a dozen bottles of whiskey and (in case he didn't drink) a dozen bottles of ginger beer sent to the offended secretary. With them went a note: "From a bad Minister to a fine Under Secretary." Since he became so busy, Lord Beaverbrook has stopped giving...
...unhappy emissary pleaded for time to communicate with his Government. The French Colonial Government canceled military leaves, closed the port of Haiphong, suspended railway traffic throughout the colony, manned coastal defenses, barricaded streets and squares in Haiphong, prepared to evacuate women and children from coastal towns. A Japanese fleet steamed outside Haiphong, and Japanese troops on the Japanese-occupied Chinese island of Hainan prepared for active duty. News from French IndoChina stopped, blocked by censorship...
...clock one morning last week a bomb burst over Seattle's water front. By the dawn's early light, rowboats scurried into Elliott Bay. Some anchored. Others rowed around. For four hours, ferryboats plying between Seattle and Bremerton had to detour to avoid the milling fleet. It was the grand finale of the Ben Paris Salmon Derby, oldest and biggest of the Pacific Northwest's latest sport craze...