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...first or second week of June, the machine would be ready to roll in earnest. Through Turkey by guile or by force, through Syria with the permission of Vichy, through Iraq with the support of anti-British Arabs, through Palestine and Trans-Jordan and right to the Canal it would roll. At the same time the Axis force in Libya, which was still sparring experimentally last week, would drive across Egypt. Also at the same time the Luftwaffe, in deadly concentration, would "bomb the British ships until the sea is black with their wreckage." Such was the German plan...
...after the successful British drive across Libya, it was rumored that General Sir Archibald Wavell had sent a large part of his troops to Palestine, to practice a hypothetical invasion of Syria. Last week a fair-sized British force was poised on the borders of Palestine and Trans-Jordan, perhaps intending to translate that hypothesis into proven matter...
...Edward H. Mahoney Shirley Carpenter, Newton Jack Torgan Edith Warren, Radcliffe GRAYS HALL Francisco J. Cardona Nancy Larson, Lasoll Donald B. Colo Nancy Todd, Wilmington John W. Ellison Ruthabeth Kreuger, Winchester Richard B. Fawcott Eleanor Downing, Waltham Bradley Fisher Dean Brinckerhoff, New Canaan, Conn. William E. Fuller, Jr. Barbara Jordan, Bancroft George H. L. Gerard Norma Chapiro, New York, N. Y. Howard R. Gleason Elizabeth Stearns, North Cohasset John W. Green Virginia Getz, Morton, Ill. E. Pierce Johnson Sally Chamberlin, Belmont Robert D. Kemble Sally Foss, Concord Ernest A. Mitchell Gerry Lux, Radcliffe Horace Morison, Jr. Grace Eddy, Boston Robert...
...Trans-Jordan pro-British Emir Abdullah was reported shot and badly wounded by his son just as he was about to march into Iraq to help the British...
Culmination came with the 800-place banquet, held like most Hollywood shindigs in the Biltmore Hotel Bowl. NBC played host. Master of Ceremonies Rudy Vallee presented Comedians Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly (Jim and Marion Jordan), Bergen & McCarthy, George Jessel. He called upon NBC's President Niles Trammell, who ended by giving Benny two gold keys that would unlock any door in NBC's Manhattan or Hollywood headquarters...