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...cartridges to Paraguay for use in the Chaco. A German firm sold 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition. Winchester Repeating Arms sold 2,500,000 cartridges to Bolivia. Remington sold 100,000 rounds to Paraguay, 20,000,000 to Bolivia. Said Remington's President Davis: "We had to be neutral. We couldn't discriminate against either government...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Large, massive, oblong skull, flesh pretty well messed up with scars, folds and wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever...
...Battle (Léon Garganoff) tells the story of a Japanese naval commander's burning devotion to his country. Adapted from Claude Farrère's novel La Bataitte, the tale involves a "neutral" British observer who has the run of a Japanese flagship, the Japanese commander's unhesitating use of his dutiful wife to get naval secrets his country needs, his final expiation of this dishonor. Aside from the extravagances of the plot, the pictorial treatment of The Battle is nearly perfect...
...battles were one and the same. Like other contemporary mix-ups, however, the action was so far from clean-cut that both sides could claim a victory and both sides did. Eighteen years after the event, Authors Gibson & Harper do their Allied best to prove that England really won. Neutral U. S. readers, however, will still feel that much can be repeated on both sides...
...spoke on the same subject in behalf of the American League Against War and Fascism. The other two speakers gradually desconded into a discussion as to whose fault it was that Communism and Socialism had never been able to agree on a united front, while Mr. Baldwin remained neutral, only committing himself so far as to say that his Communist brethren might sometimes be mildly characterized as irritating...