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...entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk had sent his Minister of Arab Affairs, patient Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey, to win over Ibn Saud. Last month the equally patient potentate, who acts only on his own terms, accepted the protocol. Forthwith Farouk himself sailed for Yenbo to pay his personal respects to the older King...
...Russia could be included under Lend-Lease. The consensus was that she could. Six weeks later, when Franklin Roosevelt found out that no shipment of munitions had yet been sent, Harry Hopkins was in England arranging the Atlantic Charter conference. He got a cable ordering him forthwith to Moscow. Two days later he was closeted alone with Stalin in the Kremlin...
...Forthwith the Army dropped 54 items from the WAC menu, thought it could save $2,700,000 on its food bill...
Every now & then, since Marcel Proust's death in 1922, a young American writes urbanely and philosophically about his or her past in long, rhythmic, qualified sentences and is forthwith called "the American Proust." Miss Stafford is the latest to be thus crowned. But while Proust was from birth an accepted member of the decadent Parisian society about which he wrote in Remembrance of Things Past, Miss Stafford's proxy, Sonia Marburg, is rather painfully not a socialite. Sonia is the dreaming, sensitive daughter of a German shoemaker and a Russian chamber maid-as unlikely a person...
...Where are we?" Telker asked, and an old Filipino answered, "Mindanao." He had inadvertently invaded the largest island in the southern Philippines, still exclusively and thickly Jap-held. Telker suggested to his party that they abandon the beachhead forthwith. They agreed...