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Minister Cross assured Parliament that no such "leak" in his blockades of Germany need be feared: the distance and cost of such routes would be too great for bulky shipments. Nevertheless, he said, "The possibilities of checking such shipments are being considered." He let members think about, but by no means promised, a British blockade of Vladivostok, contraband inspection ports at Singapore and Hong Kong...
Lubricating oils are something the Allies particularly hate to see leak into Germany. Last week from Mr. Cross's Ministry to leading U. S. oil companies went a series of extremely polite, individual (not form) letters begging that no more lubricants be sold, for the time being, to Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark, who have bought all the lubricants Great Britain thinks they need just now. To the U. S. sailed two Cross emissaries-Professor Charles Rist, formerly of the Bank of France, and Frank Ashton-Gwatkin of the British Foreign Office-to try to explain to irritated...
...fellow who tried to get friendly with one of our workmen and buy an exam paper from him. But we discovered the leak within an hour, and within the next he was packed and leaving for home. "That," Pottinger added, "happened fifteen years ago, and since then no one has had the nerve to try it again...
...masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company, called it Amkino (American Cinema...
Thus the four Balkan statesmen who sat down alone in the Council Chambers of Yugoslavia's Foreign Office and talked together without even a stenographer present to take down their thoughts (and possibly to let them leak out later) suddenly became Europe's biggest news...