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Hungarians' Choice. About a week before, Czechoslovakia's Moscow-wise President Benes had suddenly observed out loud that in his opinion Russia would favor Rumania's regaining bleak potato lands of northern Transylvania. To hardy, Russia-hating Magyars, this preference for spineless, graft-ridden Rumanians was the last straw. As the Nazis clamped down on Hungary, hitherto their most obliging satellite, the landowning lords of the Hungarian plain toyed with a desperate plan: to strike into Rumania before the Russians could cross Bessarabia...
...West Coast late this month, they may hear the Liberty ship praised even more lyrically if Captain Walter A. Brunnick is in port. Brunnick, 62, has skippered the Liberty Henry Ward Beecher 63,000 miles, carried bombs and gasoline to India by the long cold route south of Australia, ridden out a hurricane off Madagascar, survived a collision during a submarine attack off Brazil. His verdict on attacks made by the Liberties' detractors: "Flapdoodle...
Said Winston Churchill: "It's quite like old times again!" But the phrase was not wholly felicitous. To many a Londoner it was not quite like old times. The newest raids somehow did not seem to re-create the mood of grim exaltation in which Britain had ridden out the Great Blitz...
During two months of conflict in the malaria-ridden New Britain jungles, when the enemy tried frantically to push Mac-Arthur's men back into the sea, 7,000 Japs had been slain. U.S. casualties were not revealed...
...week in a comparatively peaceful election (two were killed in an interior village). The winners: 1) Teodoro Picado, candidate of incumbent President Rafael Calderón Guardia's Republicans and of the Leftist Vanguardia Popular; 2) Costa Rica, which kept its status as the only democracy in dictator-ridden Central America...