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...evidence of the good faith of the prisoner exchange, a shipload of nearly 800 British prisoners from Italy arrived last week in Turkey, weary after months of imprisonment, glad to be free but, above all, hungry. When the Italian tankers get back from The Netherlands West Indies, ships full of Italians will get home, weary, glad and about to be hungry...
...Food Minister Lord Woolton warned Britain that bread might be rationed if the public did not cooperate and eat more potatoes. Said he: "Idle nibblers of bread are nibbling at [our] very lives." A Food Ministry official estimated that the average Briton wastes three ounces daily-which means a shipload of wheat every twelve days, at a time when Allied shipping is shorter than ever...
...returned last week from an inspection tour of Casablanca and Dakar, to which, said a Vichy spokesman, "circumstances give very special importance." Admiral Darlan professed himself satisfied with what he saw. Vichy's control over the forces at Dakar was strengthened by the arrival in France of a shipload of 1,300 wives and children of Dakar residents and soldiers. This brought the total number of such potential hostages in France...
Eighteen years, three months and seven days before Pearl Harbor, Japan experienced an earthquake and fires that took 90-odd thousand lives and left disease smoldering in their wake. Some $11,000,000 in cash and many a shipload of relief materials from a sympathetic U.S., commented Herbert H. Gowen in his An Outline History of Japan, "are things no Japanese is ever likely to forget." Japan did not forget. Said a War Department communiqué last week...
Transocean's U.S. managers, Dr. Manfred Zapp and Günther Tonn, were not in court. Two days before the trial opened in Washington, they were released from Ellis Island (in exchange for two U.S. newsmen- "detained" in Germany) to sail with a shipload of Axis consuls on the U.S.S. West Point (TIME, July 28). Nor could Transocean be compelled to pay its $1,000 fine, $15,000 court costs. For when this U.S. branch of Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry closed down officially on July 10, its till was neatly empty...