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Last week Annette Islanders prepared to be host to more than 400 of them for a long time to come. Most of the guests will be youngsters of CCC, scheduled to sail this week from Seattle on the Army transport Leonard Wood, with a detachment of Army engineers and technicians of the U. S. Forest Service. Their assignment: to clear and drain an Air Corps flying field on the swampy, flat west arm of Annette Island's reservation...
...Lithuania, Acting Secretary of State Welles had two friendly talks with the U. S. S. R.'s witty, chubby Ambassador Constantine Oumansky. The U. S. Maritime Commission meanwhile sanctioned the charter of two U. S. tankers to carry gasoline to Russia, simultaneously refused to let two other ships sail with oil and steel for Japan...
...Narciso Rich, like Forester's Horatio Hornblower (TIME, May i, 1939), is capable of intelligent reflection; but he is not by nature a man of action. He is, rather, a sort of Leopold Bloom light-ballasted for a more adventurous sailing pace: plump, humane, timorous, uneasily involved in thoughts which set him, in the late Middle Ages, on the borderlands of heresy and of the Renaissance. Without quite understanding why, he has committed himself, in the middle of a tabby life, to sail with Columbus on his third voyage, as guardian of the Spanish King's interests...
...Buenos Aires the British motorship Gascony floated quietly at her dock, prepared to sail for England with British volunteers and a cargo of canned meat...
...Atlantic is the volcanic tableland called Iceland, which, until April 10, shared Christian X with Denmark as her King. British warships took Iceland under patrol, British troops were sent there "protectively" while the Nazis rampaged through Norway. Last week, following reports of a German expedition about to sail to seize Iceland, Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada announced that a Canadian force had landed at Reykjavik, home of the world's oldest parliament (930 A.D.). Should the Germans arrive and fight, the Battle for Iceland would bring World War II within 2,100 miles of U. S. soil...