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...neighbors to like "north" Americans, it seems hardly necessary to refute the asinine charges made against us-in general. My experience has been limited to the past 15 years, but even that short period should better qualify me to condemn my fellow-countrymen down here than one with the ripe experience of one year's stay among Argentines and Brazilians...
Franklin Roosevelt, sailing mysteriously to sea (see p.16), left behind him big, unpublished news last week: he had at last decided that the time was ripe to do something final about the staggering, boggling defense program. And the man the President had chosen to outline the cleanup was his most intimate adviser, Samuel Irving Rosenman, a judge of New York's Supreme Court...
Afternoon's Work. One day last week R.A.F. reconnaissance craft brought in some very interesting pictures. They showed the harbor of Rotterdam ripe with an unprecedented crop of ships. The pictures were so interesting that they went straight to Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., known as Peter. Peter Portal looked and took them straight to the War Cabinet, for the special perusal of Winston Churchill and Secretary of State for Air Sir Archibald Sinclair. All agreed-give these ships the business...
...ancestral acres in Carroll County. In his sun-faded blue workshirt and khaki trousers, his feet planted firmly in the manure-padded earth of his own barnyard, he looked out across the clover field in which hogs rooted and snuffled, across to the yellow sheen of his ripe wheat, on to the horizon. He saw a farther horizon than Carroll County's-a horizon bounded by war but boundless with the promise of a better world. What he thought about now was not the rain clouds that might hurt the wheat but the dream of enough food...
...Washington, however, informed Chinese knew that no bombers had been promised China. Desperately the Chinese argued: for four years the Japanese had raked Chinese civilians with death and fire; industrial Japan is ripe for the killing; one bomber to China is the equal of ten to Britain and every bombing of Japan would make the backdoor of the British Empire that much more secure. Urgent too was the Chinese need for transport planes to haul quickly needed vital materials from an Indian railhead to interior points. But the British out-begged them...