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Vichy has five great battleships. But the 35,000-ton Richelieu, damaged in the British-Free French attack on Dakar, is reported unable to move, now serves as a floating fort for Dakar. Its sister ship, Jean Bart, towed to Casablanca at the war's outbreak while still incomplete, has possibly not yet had all its guns mounted. Fully repaired or nearly so, after the battle of Oran, are the 26,500-ton Strasbourg and Dunkerque, the 22,000-ton Provence, all in Toulon. There are also eleven heavy and light cruisers, six supposedly en route to Madagascar...
Ever since those early days Perkins has been preparing its sightless graduates to "take a contributory place in life," but now, in a society at war, their place is more than ever distinguished and distinctive. Up to the outbreak of war, these men and women, both partially and totally blind, had filled positions ranging from poultry farmers to teachers and public servants. Now they have adapted their special abilities to war work. Many are serving as airplane spotters, their highly-developed hearing enabling them to locate a plane long before their seeing companions are aware of it. Others are employed...
...larger part of the year 1939 Masaryk lectured at various colleges and universities in this country. He returned to London and with the outbreak of war he inaugurated a series of Czechoslovak broadcasts...
...outbreak of tribal warfare, after civil authorities withdrew from northeast New Guinea, threatened both Japs and the remaining white inhabitants...
...Britain this year horse racing will be limited to 42 days of flat racing (last prewar season: 331) and five race tracks, and horses will be permitted to race only in their own training areas. As compared to 5,500 at war's outbreak, only around 1,250 British bangtails will be in training. In the good old days when the Derby was held at Epsom, some 200,000 railbirds would turn out: last year the Derby, moved to New Market, drew about 15,000. At this year's Derby, on June 13, the turnout is sure...