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Past Italy almost every day sail French supply ships for Syria. Premier Daladier has taken off the retired list and sent to Syria famed General Maxime Weygand, who in 1920 helped the Poles to crush the Red Army offensive against Warsaw. Under General Weygand in Syria today is a French Army of some 20 divisions, with which he may help Turkey or Rumania as he once helped Poland. But the Italian Navy and Air Force could harry the flow of French munitions, troops and supplies for Syria-not that the Italian people would wish these cut off. Presumably, M. Andr...
...Fascist "Pact of Steel," and when the Allies called his bluff, II Duce rather awkwardly last fall backed down and declared "non-belligerency." Grumbling at home last autumn and a major shake-up among his top officers indicated that Mussolini's Italy had to do a lot of sail-trimming. > After seven years of Franklin Roosevelt, the U. S. was still in the dumps, offered no example to the rest of the world as to how to get along. Best Roosevelt deeds of 1939 Were his earnest but unheeded plumpings for peace...
...from Murmansk to Hamburg* (TIME, Dec. 25) apparently cued North German Lloyd's 32, 581-ton Columbus, third biggest of the Nazi merchant marine - tied up at Veracruz since debarking her passengers at Havana in September - to make a dash for it. When he received the order to sail home, Columbus' Captain Wilhelm Daehne had no choice but to obey, though he knew his chance of getting through was paper-thin. For weeks he trained two picked squads in the fine art of scuttling and firing ship...
After 70 hours, while farmers profited by selling parking space to onlookers, Dr. Poulter and the crew managed to get Penguin back on the road. Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's third South Pole expedition, all set to sail, impatiently awaited the monster in Boston. The little motorship North Star, loaded with sled dogs and supplies, was due to shove off for Philadelphia, where she was to take aboard airplanes, proceed to a New Year's Day rendezvous in Little America with the expedition's flagship, Bear...
...Philippines and the U. S., has recently grown rapidly. If Japan plans to move in the day after the U. S. moves out, why move out? This week Commander in Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet Admiral Thomas C. Hart and Shanghai Consul General Clarence E. Gauss sail for Manila aboard U. S. S. Augusta for consultations with Francis B. Sayre, U. S. High Commissioner to the Philippines, on the subject of U. S. interests in Asia, and the extent to which the U. S. should stand watch over Allied interests. Last week France followed the lead of Great...