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Winston Churchill would like him to try either one right now, and said so in another of his eloquent interim reports last week (see p. 15, p. 30). A Balkan diversion would create a further respite for the British Isles. With an African army beating its chest, Britain has the troops for a fight. And it looked very much as if Winston Churchill were trying to pick a fight. After warning Bulgaria that military objectives would be bombed "distastefully" if German troops entered that country, he declared that German troops were already there...
...President were it not for the fact that Lázaro Cárdenas had backed him, that the extreme left wing had put their machines behind him and their machine guns in front of him. So in last-minute dickering Avila Camacho agreed to form an interim Cabinet, with several holdovers from the Cárdenas regime. It looked as if for the time there would be a government of compromise...
...sovereign, whether or not any other nation does. The Government at Vichy promulgates laws, regulates commerce, commands the lives of 20,000,000 citizens in unoccupied France and the hopes of 20,000,000 others in the occupied zone. Vichy also sends diplomatic envoys to foreign sovereign States. In interim diplomatic relations with Germany, France has definite bargaining points which, though they might mean suicide for France, might also mean serious checks and stumbles to Germany. Last week sovereign France used these points to advantage in her first post-armistice crisis with Germany...
...work of putting a trick together takes many months. In order to keep his methods secret, he farms out a piece of an illusion to one assistant, another piece to another, then puts them together in private. Not since 1927 has he performed in the U. S. During the interim he toured the world. He was in Berlin when war broke out. Promptly the Nazis ordered him out of Germany. Says he: "That monkey in Germany cost...
...Best interim solution for the U. S.: internment of the French warships, especially the airplane carrier Beam, in U. S. ports until the war's end. Last week State Department officials let it be unofficially known that U. S.-Martinique negotiations with that end in view had been broken off by Martinique, that the U. S. was taking steps to immobilize French warships in Martinique harbors...