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...small steamer was last week permitted temporarily to put into Beirut, Lebanon, after a wave of suicide and disease among its 650 passengers. Two others were off the Lebanese coast. The ships were part of the fleet of vessels, mostly run by Rumanians and Greeks, that hovers continuously off the Palestine coast. Crowded miserably aboard them are hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany, Rumania, Hungary and former Czecho-Slovakia. At night the vessels edge closer to the shore, watching for the signal lights that mean all is clear for the landing of their cargoes. Since April 1938 more than...
Last week in Manhattan's Chinatown, eminent Chinese, art lovers, sympathizers gathered in Lichee Wan's Restaurant to pay respects to an aging and ailing little thin-bearded man with a quick smile, bright eyes and fleet gestures-Chang Shan-tse of Chungking. His mission: to raise money to buy medical supplies for beleaguered China. In a garret studio, from 6 a. m. until nightfall he could be found feverishly painting $$o-up duplicates of water colors whose originals had brought $1,500 in China. Their soft mauves, greens and umbers, their economically limned designs of rocky landscapes...
...subsidize the sort of victory that seemed best calculated to damage the Monroe Doctrine. The U. S. would thus find its neutrality policy contravening an even older policy and threatening the safety of the Panama Canal, which is vital to the two-ocean effectiveness of the U. S. fleet. For this reason the present bill provides exceptions virtually excusing the U. S. from mandatory neutrality in any Latin-American...
...term disadvantage and danger of the U. S. The weakness of embargoes against aggressor nations only is that they may lead to near-term difficulties and dangers. If the U. S. were to apply economic sanctions against Japan as an "aggressor" without first enlisting the cooperation of the British fleet and fortified Singapore Base, it would probably find itself hard put to it to keep its trade lanes open to the Malayan Archipelago, whence comes most U. S. rubber and tin. The Japanese might be provoked to raids on American shipping in the Celebes and Java seas and would probably...
...Japanese, and has probably saved U. S. citizens in China some of the humiliation and indignities that Britons have undergone. In answering so effectively Japan's ultimatum last week, the U. S. Admiral also notified Japanese authorities at Shanghai and the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Fleet in China, Vice-Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, that U. S. ships would go wherever U. S. lives or property were endangered...