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...include certain quaintly sketchy chapters on U. S. naval operations in California. Men-of-war from England, France, Russia and the U. S. had been tacking along that beautiful coast for years, itching to hoist-and occasionally hoisting-their flags in nominally Mexican territory. At the outbreak of war the U. S. Government sent Commodore Robert Field Stockton, a fire-eating officer from Princeton, N. J., to reinforce the Pacific squadron. Mexican ports were blockaded, Mexican ships burned, Mexican towns bombarded. In several engagements Commodore Stockton's seamen beat Mexican troops all hollow...
...guaranteed victorious Olympic team for Manchukuo. The big bee in Orestes' bonnet was war, which, he was convinced, "like any other business, could be vastly improved by those planning to engage in it." His first big order was for 500,000 men to mop up a threatened Communist outbreak in the Netherlands East Indies. Unfortunately for Orestes, the job was too easy. His supercharged G. M. units, just nicely warmed up by the exercise, ached for a real workout, and when the fatal suggestion was made, "Let's take San Francisco-," it was the end of Orestes...
Pacific Liner (RKO Radio). Amorous rivalry between a ship's doctor and a chief engineer, heightened by an outbreak of cholera on the high seas, results in a few deep-breathing exercises for Chester Morris and Victor McLaglen...
...What do I think ot the latest Nazi outbreak? I think it's terrible, the most terrible thing I ever heard of! And I'll probably lose my job for saying that. But it stands. You might also say that I am only sharing the sentiments of our President. Oh, how I would like to say a lot more! . . . Meet me on the day that I resign...
Probably the most difficult and at the same time the most lucid of present-day poets is Laura Riding. Manhattan-born, Laura Riding at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War was settled in Mallorca, where, with Robert Graves, she published books of the Seizin Press. Forced to leave the island at a few hours' notice, she is now living in Brittany until Mallorca returns to its normal ways. An indefatigable worker, she has written nine books of poetry, six of criticism, a novel. This month her Collected Poems (Random House, $4) was published...