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Last week France's No. 1 journalist-in-exile packed his belongings in Washington, including his cocker spaniel Busy Bee, gift of his good friend Walter Lippmann, and got ready to sail home. He hoped to celebrate his 63rd birthday on the Atlantic. It had been five years and four months since "Pertinax" sailed out of Bordeaux on a British destroyer, away from a France which had not heeded his Cassandra-like warnings...
...King announced that he was going to Washington for brief talks with President Truman over the weekend; then he would sail from New York for London. Because he would take time to visit Canadian troops and battlefields, because he would "see for myself something of the changed world in which Canada must make her way," he would probably be gone a month and a half...
...Gamblers. The reports for the first time gave eye-popping details of the Jap attack. On Nov. 27-28, a Jap task force, carefully and particularly trained for its mission, set sail from Tankan Bay in northern Japan and headed east, in radio silence. Its orders were to sink any vessel it should meet, even Japanese; nothing must be left to a chance betrayal of its course. In the force were six carriers carrying (said the Board) some 424 planes,*two battleships, three cruisers and a destroyer division...
Stark had failed to give Kimmel all the information at hand on Jap intentions. Stark had even written Kimmel (in a personal letter) on Oct. 17: "I do not believe the Japs are going to sail into us." Stark's messages had "directed Kirnmel's attention toward the Far East" as the most probable Jap target if they should attack, rather than toward Hawaii; this was the conviction also generally held in Washington...
With his Cockney mother, Queen Rose, the young ruler will sail to his kingdom as soon as passage can be arranged. Meanwhile he is brushing up on his Malay...