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...World's record nonstop flight was made in 1938 by two British Royal Air Force Vickers-Wellesley planes between Ismailia, Egypt and Darwin, Australia (7,158 mi...
...smallest of Britain's Crown colonies, Gibraltar (area, 2 sq. mi.; pop. 19,278) took a firm stand against the liquidation of the British Empire. At the foot of the Rock, a mass meeting voted last week to send three delegates on a mission to London. Their mandate: to have "Gib" incorporated in metropolitan Britain, 1,200 miles away...
Unmarked by war save for a barbed-wire fence along its eastern frontier to keep war criminals out, the peewee principality of Liechtenstein (area 65 sq. mi., pop. 11,500) last week coasted calmly into the problems of peace. No invader had threatened its soil or sovereignty, but new ideas had spilled over from neighboring Italy, Austria, Switzerland...
Bloody Baron. Inner Mongolia is the lean twin (some 300,000 sq. mi.) of Outer Mongolia (some 900,000 sq. mi.). In pre-World War I days Outer Mongolia, with its less-than-one-million lama-ruled herds men, was nominally a part of China, actually a Tsarist protectorate...
...miles east of Jap-held Yap, 400 miles southwest of Guam-and 4,000 miles nearer the war than Pearl Harbor. Ulithi was captured without opposition last September by the 321st Regiment of the 81st Infantry Division.* The Japs had just left. Ulithi's great, 112-sq.-mi. anchorage could hold nearly 1,000 ships of the U.S. Fleet-something neither Guam nor Pearl Harbor...