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...more than a month, churchmen and pacifist organizations have been rat-tat-tatting the White House with protests against the forthcoming naval maneuvers in the Pacific (TIME, April 8). Out of this fleet operation involving 177 ships, 447 planes and covering 5,000,000 sq. mi. of seaways, pious people feared, might come the incident which would plunge the U. S. into war with Japan. By last week pacifist pressure had grown so great that the Navy Department for the first time in many a year was obliged to say something, do something...
...Sims will speak on the situation in the Pacific at the present time, in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House after supper tomorrow night. After his talk he will answer any questions that members of the House may care to ask. Sims was attached to the Asiatic fleet for many years, and he had command of the American naval forces operating in European waters during the World War. As a result of this command, he was awarded an LL.D. degree by both Harvard and Yale...
...audience into a meeting of a New York taxicab union. Playwright Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have sold out the cabdrivers to the fleet owners, are trying to prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one Lefty, pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious, brief flashbacks, indicating the misery of the hackmen's conditions. When it turns...
Because nobody said they were bombing planes, a fleet of German military aircraft wheeling over Berlin fortnight ago were mere circumstantial evidence that Aviation Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring had broken the Treaty of Versailles which denies all military aircraft to Germany. Last week, five days before Realmleader Hitler made the treaty a scrap of paper (see p. 20), General Göring gave direct evidence. He announced that Germany has long had a military air force, merged it formally with the Reichswehr, announced himself as "General of the Flyers...
...bought Red Star Line lock, stock & barrel from International Mercantile Marine for $1,000,000 last month after practically running that 61-year-old concern off the sea with his cut rates (TIME, Feb. 18). Now that he had added the Pennland and Westernland to his fleet, he might do the same to other old-established lines...