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General MacArthur traveled the narrow gauge, single-track railway which hooks bombarded Darwin to Birdum, 250 miles southward, in the heart of the continent's desert. Thence he had to drive 500 miles farther south on a new military highway, through lands so desolate that a U.S. pilot had said: "If I ever got forced down there, I would shoot myself...
...silent people of the Balkans. The Germans and Italians have increased their armies in Yugoslavia to 400,000. They have ordered peasants to grow no tall crops within 500 yards of rail lines or main roads. It required five Nazified Bulgarian divisions to reopen the main railway from Nish to Salonika, over which Germany sends small submarines, piecemeal, to the Mediterranean...
Argentina was going quietly about its business of liberating itself from foreign economic and financial influence. Last week it used its blocked sterling credits to redeem the ?365,700 balance ($1,473,800) of 5% Transandine Railway bonds, raising the total bonds repatriated from London since Nov. 1, 1941 to the tidy sum of ?4,100,000 ($16,523,000). By coolly outbidding the U.S., Argentina bought up the bulk of Ecuadorian rubber to help keep its tire factories running. And at week's end Madrid announced a new accord with Argentina for: 1) exchange of Spain...
...extracting a living from journalism were those employed by Le Matin's Publisher Maurice Bunau-Varilla (whose brother started the Panama Canal). A classic case was Bunau-Varilla's campaign against Leopold II of Belgium, which stopped suddenly after special concessions were granted a Belgian Congo railway of which Bunau-Varilla was a director. In his later years the publisher became interested in a pharmaceutical formula known as Synthol. It was adopted first by the French Army. Later the Germans professed to need it in great quantities. When France fell, Le Matin was the first pro-Nazi paper...
...weekend dispatch from Leningrad translated partisan successes during six months of hard war into hard facts: 10,480 Germans (including two generals) killed, 64 trains wrecked, five railway bridges dynamited, 71 planes destroyed, a "heavy toll" taken of German tanks and automobiles...