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That also was the question that concerned Lord Beaverbrook's visit to the U.S. This week the first overt step was taken. It was announced that Pan American Airways would ferry U.S. planes to West Africa and thence to the Middle East...
This fact documents Editor & Publisher's assertion: "There is no doubt but that this opinion would change overnight following an overt act on the part of any of the Axis powers...
Democrats, shouting that the non-interventionists were "appeasers and defeatists," beat four amendments down. A fifth which got through was a provision to pay for the seized vessels of debtor nations with credit on their debts. Majority Leader McCormack declared that this was "more of an overt act" than anything in the original measure, accused Republicans of talking one way and voting another...
...Barcza to pay him a call. Mr. Eden suavely ticked off Hungary with "sympathetic understanding" of Hungary's embarrassing position-but he warned that if Britain wins the war Hungary will pay. By week's end the pre-war Rumanian-British friendship had run its course to overt enmity. After the rupture of diplomatic relations (TIME, Feb. 17) the British Board of Trade announced that all goods of Rumanian origin, destination or ownership henceforth would be considered enemy contraband...
...miscellaneous craft; 500 modern planes and as many more in reserve against perhaps 200 old crates (Junkers, Gloucester Gladiators, Blackburns, even French planes); the tacit support of Germany, with some 70 divisions of 1,125,000 men poised in the Balkans (according to British sources), against overt help from Britain, militarily pinned down at home and in Egypt. Despite this apparently overwhelming disparity, the Greeks chose to fight. Ancient valor was reborn...