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Drastic Neighbor. This policy was successful during the period of U.S. "big-stick" intervention in Latin American affairs. But the Good Neighbor Policy was a setback. Argentinians watched "one republic after another being won over to Washington by the simple device of a Pan American policy founded on sincerity. . . . It was plain to the makers of Argentinian diplomacy that a drastic move was imperative. . . .They went in search of an issue and Washington gave them an unexpected one: the growing danger of fascism...
...freckled Pennsylvania Dutchman, Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, commander of U.S. strategic bombing forces. "Tooey" Spaatz is a hardboiled, able airman who has fought the battles of air power all the way from Washington to Britain to Africa and back to Britain again, shrugging off every disappointment, every setback, with the glumly philosophic phrase: "That's a helluva way to run a railroad...
...fact stood clear: the military was moving to dictate the interpretation of events. TIME'S Will Lang cabled from Anzio: "The press, which has campaigned since the war's beginning for rapid release of the worst as well as of the best news, has received a definite setback. The trend is to controlled censorship, to the Army's doctrine of its vested interest in the news" (TIME...
...result was a crashing anticlimax. A prevalent guess in Washington: Argentina's Government had already heard enough, was about to break relations with the Axis, and Mr. Roosevelt did not want to anger its Government at a critical moment. If not, the U.S. had suffered a dismal setback...
This win gives the Crimson a slightly better record for tomorrow night's return engagement with Camp Edwards. The soldiers handed the courtmen a decisive setback in the initial encounter at Edwards last Saturday. The game will be played in the Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock...