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...will be a hollow gain unless the U.S. grants a preferential tariff on Philippine products. In prewar years the U.S. bought 82% of the Philippine exports, worth $256,000,000 a year. But a high tariff would cut this to a trickle, leave the Philippines to begin a search for new markets...
Dawn was not far past when U.S. search planes picked the fleet up southwest of Kyushu and flashed the word to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58. Task groups under Rear Admirals Frederick C. Sherman, Arthur W. Radford, Joseph James ("Jocko") Clark and Gerald F. Began surged forward, ran for the oncoming Japanese. At noon they launched their planes...
...Greek for "City of the Sun"), prehistoric Egypt's capital and sacred seat of the sun god, Ra. Little is known about this late Stone Age city except that it was destroyed by war about 5000 B.C. Last week from Cairo came the news that archeologists, after long search, have finally found its site. The real discoverer, oddly, was a German professor in Berlin...
...title character is an old English Jew who ventures into the anti-Semitic Germany of 1938 in search of a twelve-year-old refugee's missing mother. On the way he finds himself framed on a murder charge, dragged from bed by the Gestapo, and cast into a Nazi prison. Help comes from a British night club singer who is the toast of Berlin and has no little influence with the military bigwigs of the hour. It is an engrossing story of international adventure that banks on neither unique turns of plot nor an overdose of suspense, but on sensitive...
...THUNDER - Frederic Prokosch - Harper ($2.50). Once again the author of The Conspirators silkily mixes mysticism and melodrama in an allegorical account of an underground agent's mission. In search of the spiritual dry rot besetting occupied France, the agent, Jean-Nicolas Martin, finds meaning for his own life in the love of a darkly beautiful Italian miss...