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...mines to National Lead Co., and diversified his own stake. He now owns mines in Malay (No. 1 tin-ore producer), a huge smelter near Liverpool. He likes to think he also still controls large smelters in Germany. He let France go on his cuff, and calls Mussolini "Mi Musso...
...mi. around Tangier were internationalized in 1904 when France and Spain partitioned Morocco. The U. S. joined 26 other nations in the Act of Algeciras (1906), which followed Kaiser Wilhelm IPs insistence that the Sultan of Morocco continue to rule, though under French-Spanish protection. Thus the U. S. is represented in the international assembly which legislates for Tangier and the U. S. Consul is a member of the governing Committee of Control...
...realization that, not from obscure fifth columnists or Stutzpunkte, but within the Governments themselves, lay the chief danger of Fascist domination of South America. By far the largest of all South American countries, with a territory as great as all the rest put together (3,275,510 sq. mi.) and greater than that of continental U. S., is Brazil. It contains 44,000,000 of South America's 88,000.000 inhabitants. It is fabulously rich in natural resources almost completely undeveloped. It is potentially strong enough to dominate the continent. From Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Dornellas Vargas...
Digging a tunnel under the English Channel from Calais to Dover (22 mi.) is a project discussed since Napoleon's time, repeatedly vetoed by Britain* lest it bring an invader from the Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground...
...impossible, true figures on the loss of life were glossed over officially. But it could be guessed that not less than 500,000 men were killed, wounded or captured in seven days on a patch of earth about the size of an average U. S. county (970 sq. mi.)† Additional casualties among the millions of civilian refugees were incalculable. At least 1,000 airplanes were shot down. Every town and hamlet from Boulogne to Cambrai and north to Bruges was shattered by explosives or leveled by fire. Virtually every acre was pocked by missiles, stained with blood, strewn...