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...recent skirmish near the border between Libya and Egypt. The Germans were confidently preparing last week to add to their collection of junked British weapons. In reconnaissance-in-force across the Egyptian border, they drove two fairly strong tank columns into British forward positions to feel out strength, then withdrew them quickly. British strength in the Western Desert has grown greatly during the summer, and the British hope there will be no more landscapes like the above when the real skirmishes begin...
...week's end, despite denials from Helsinki and Berlin, Uncle Joe Stalin appeared to be trying to maneuver Finland out of the war. He withdrew 15 divisions from the Karelian Isthmus. Having recaptured Viipuri, which the Russians took from them in 1940, the Finns, by the Russians' withdrawal, will now have virtually all their pre-1940 territory back again. Stalin evidently hoped that the Finns, anxious to retain the friendship of the U.S. and embarrassed by their alliance with Hitler, might now pile arms and pull out of the campaign...
...vigorous man of peace in a day when a great war was already brewing. He headed the U.S. delegation to the London Naval Conference and was chairman of another disarmament conference committee that went to Geneva two years later, had its plans knocked into a cocked hat when Germany withdrew. Between times he suggested U.S. collaboration with Britain to stop Japan's invasion of Manchuria. (But appeasement-minded Sir John Simon icily ignored it.) He proclaimed again & again that the U.S. would recognize no territorial gains based on conquest. At every turn in his career for 30 years Henry...
...Washington housewife rushed out of her house, retrieved a coffee pot which her child had thrown into a collection truck, withdrew $300 in bills, tossed the pot back. Said the housewife: "My life's savings...
Last week another Greek completed a trip that made the Odyssey seem a beeline. This voyager was Christos Diamantopoulos, Greek Minister to Russia, who was asked to leave his post when Russia withdrew diplomatic recognition of Greece as a gesture to her then friend Adolf Hitler. His departure was finally arranged after Hitler invaded the U.S.S.R...