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United States aid to China, according to Kuo, also benefits the Americas in that it helps to remove the Japanese threat from its western bases and shores. Effective Chinese aid with modern equipment would force Japan to concentrate its efforts in China, weakening the forces it would be able to muster against the United States...
...excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with a new season's make coming on." The immediate need: 20 refrigerator ships. If Dairyman Goodfellow's case was typical of all of Britain's food-suppliers, then sinkings were taking on a new and more dangerous threat. How could Britain build and maintain her war machine if ships to carry munitions material had to be used to keep her from starving...
Most of the richest treasures had been removed from the British Museum, but incendiaries hit and gutted its library, one of the world's greatest. Ironically, while Egypt lay under the Nazi threat, the museum's Egyptian section was almost demolished. But if sentiments were wrung by these noble ruins, far more hearts were broken and lives were taken in less historic spots...
...German threat to Egypt and Suez last week became immediate and serious...
Granite-willed, softhearted, old (80) "Uncle Dan" Willard last week made good a ten-year threat. He resigned as $60,000-a-year President of B. & O., stepped up to a less active chairmanship, turned over the throttle to Western Union's Roy Barton White. Oldest R.R. president in the U.S., he had headed B. & 0. for 31 years, was the last link between the days of Harriman-Hill-Gould and the regulation-cramped ICC. But spry Uncle Dan hated to knock off. Said he: "I wish I were only 60 and could keep on. I love...