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Immigration offices, consulates were unprepared to handle the sudden rush of border migrants. Mrs. Emma R. Anderson, of Windsor, argued hopelessly that she had to get across to Detroit, where she owned a furnished apartment. Only in the most desperate cases were regulations relaxed. Seventy-year-old Mrs. Mary Stables, of Toronto, was allowed to pass because her son was dying in South Bend, Ind. By week's end confusion was relieved somewhat by the issuance of "alien identification" cards to Canadians with permanent U. S. addresses...
Sirs : Re sudden rise of the Wendell Willkie star TIME may have a lot more to do with this astronomical phenomenon than appears on the surface...
...Washington dozed in the bureaucratic sun; the same great crowds of office workers swarmed from the Government buildings at 4:30 p.m.; the same old familiar groups of spies and gossipers met for cocktails at sundown; New Dealers and newly drafted industrialists were alike caught in traffic jams when sudden summer storms drenched the cab-filled streets...
...sudden capture of Fort Eben Emael at Liége was swiftly followed...
That all is not what it seems is naturally well known to Lanny's father, Robbie Budd. A Yaleman sleek and capable as a panther, Robbie turns up in sudden glamor from time to time, goes swimming with his son, instructs him in the munitions game, warns him again & again that the coming war will be "for profit." Father and son have tea with the Munitions King, Zaharoff, who oddly begins to talk like Upton Sinclair: "Suppose some nation should decide that its real enemies are the makers of munitions? Suppose that instead of dropping bombs upon battleships...