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...threat of a Nazi Army moving through France and Spain to cork up Gibraltar and garrison northwest Africa was serious indeed to the British. If such a campaign succeeded, the British would practically have to abandon the western Mediterranean and Germany would have another base for the Battle of the Atlantic, as well as a steppingstone on the route to South America via Dakar...
...authorities suspected that it might be preparing the way for the conquest of Japan by European countries as the Philippine Islands had been conquered. For more than two centuries, Christians were forbidden to enter Japan on pain of death. With Japanese at the helm of the church, the political threat to Christianity is minimized...
This afternoon Don Donahue and Co. will polish up their winning manners in a dress rehearsal with the Boston Athletie Association prior to playing host to Dartmouth's mammoth track threat next Saturday. Today the Freshmen will also get off to a 2:15 gun at Exeter...
...Crimson linksmen fought off a dangerous Brown threat at Belmont yesterday in their first league match and sneaked off with a 5 to 4 win. The six individual matches were split, but Harvard copped two out of the three best balls for the decision on the cold, rain-drenched course...
...British-Iraqi Treaty such an action is perfectly permissible "in the event of the imminent threat of war," and Premier El-Gailani, who had officially come out for the treaty (perhaps without thinking the British could spare the troops), knew it. Best move he could think of was to send a pro-British staff officer hastily to welcome the British commander...