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...decided that it would be strategically wise to waive Lend-Lease rights for the time being and stand by while the U.S. sent goods tagged for Britain to Russia instead. Some of these goods would go to Russia across the Pacific to Vladivostok, and thence along the Trans-Siberian Railway. But for the time being most would go across the Atlantic and in by way of Archangel (see map). The Russians gave assurances that their efficient ice-breaking service would keep this life line open...
Down from the north came Japanese columns, paralleling the strategic Hankow-Canton railway on both sides (see map). They meant business. Five regular divisions, two hundred planes were in this shove. Last time the Japanese pushed on Changsha the Chinese destroyed the roads, encircled the attackers, forced them into disastrous retreat. This time the Japanese brought with them six full regiments of engineers. Communications with the rear were to be kept open at all costs...
Czecrio-Slovalda, tucked away in the core of Hitler's Empire, is probably the tightest-sealed source of continental news. For months fires, slowdowns, mismanagement and active destruction have cost the Nazis precious marks, materials and time. Railway sabotage has cost them lives...
...registering with the Bank of England some $52,000 worth of U.S. and Canadian securities. The onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters. The Lord Mayor disagreed. On parole from the pen where he had been sent for hornswoggling Philippine Railway investors, once-affluent William Buckner said he was busted, that his wife Adelaide Moffett, blue-blooded songstress, is paying their $800-a-month household bills, A plea of Mae West's forgotten husband Frank Wallace for $1,000-a-month temporary support was thrown out of court after Mae said...
Once I saw Kittredge in the railway station in New York walking among the people waiting to take the train, and apparently offering something for sale with poor results. I asked him what on earth was going on, and he explained he had bought a ticket for this train and then found he could not get a parlor car seat, so he was trying to sell his ticket, wait an hour and get a seat where he could do some work. "Every man I approach thinks I'm a crook," he said...