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In Washington there were three schools of thought on the Far Eastern situation: 1) Messrs. Pittman, Schwellenbach, Izac, Coffee, Fish, et al.-proponents of an embargo against Japan; 2) a growing group, underwritten by Secretary Morgenthau and the Export-Import Bank, which favored the roundabout maneuver of giving China a...
Victor Emanuel met Loewenstein in England, where he has spent many a season steeplechasing and riding to hounds. (He was once Master of the Woodland Pytchley hounds.) Between times he has thinned his hair, widened his girth by syndicate operations in a swivel chair. Still president of Standard Power & Light...
Dr. Thomas Charles Poulter, its designer and driver, was easing the monster down a wooden ramp to the ice. Suddenly the heavy planks crackled, splintered, flew in all directions like straws in a whirlwind. In the vibrant words of the radio message which reached the Navy Department : "Dr. Poulter, faced...
The return to Paris last week from the Near East of General Maxime Weygand, to report on his preparations for an Allied Army there, added interest to the commentary. With Finland getting hers from Russia, and with Rumania apparently earmarked next, it was newsworthy bluff, if not noteworthy fact, when...
By coincidence or not, the French forecast of a war of maneuver was preceded and followed by greatly increased activity of German patrols, all the way from the Moselle to the Rhine. Starting with dozens, the Nazi raids increased to as many as 80 in a single night, in such...