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From the nervous Netherlands East Indies last week it was rumored that trade negotiations with Japan were near breakup. Thin, chilly Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens pointedly warned by radio that The Netherlands East Indies would fight whoever attacked them. "We wish to live in peace," he said, "but not at any price." With enthusiasm he quoted Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Britain's Far Eastern Commander in Chief, to the effect that any attack across a line drawn from Singapore through the East Indies to Australia should be regarded as an attack...
...electrodes are pads of soft rubber sponge covered with interlacing bands of thin copper strip, and are attached to a small electric transformer and timing device. A current of 70 to 100 volts is passed from one side of the patient's head to the other for about one-tenth of a second...
Wavell's Plan. All week long, exhausted Australians, New Zealanders and Britons who had fought in Greece disembarked at Egyptian ports. These men were in no shape to undertake another heroic defense. They and all the British forces in Egypt were woefully thin on heavy equipment. Of all the armored strength available before the Greek campaign, reportedly just one brigade remained in service in Egypt. However, Cairo reported the arrival there of U.S. materials last week, and Vichy sources said that no less than 26 U.S. merchant ships, "stacked to the funnels" with 75-mm. field guns and other...
Lindbergh, still thin and young-looking, his wavy hair now receding a little, spoke calmly, almost cold-bloodedly, and with evident sincerity. He asserted that...
...story itself is as simple as starvation, as insanely complicated as law. Neither man has any legal right to existence; both of them insist on existing anyhow. Josef Steiner is hard and adroit: by cheating at cards he earns the thin security of a dead Austrian's doctored passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna...