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Besides being a hurrier, Peter Portal is studious, thorough, meticulous. As a boy he became interested in falconry; by 16 he was writing learned articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...
...strategic ports on the Gulf of Aden...
...British Empire, the Soviet Union and the United States of America." The plan then proceeded to demand naval parity for the Tokyo-Berlin-Rome Axis against the U.S. and Great Britain. Further to reduce the naval power of the U.S. and Britain, the plan demanded the demilitarization of Malta, Aden, Singapore, Hong Kong; complete withdrawal of the British Navy from the Mediterranean; the withdrawal of the U.S. to Hawaii-"and even that stronghold reduced in importance...
...plant as its editorial offices moved from jungle to jungle. While this strange propaganda rallied more & more blacks to the cause, Haile Selassie and his forces took Danghila, south of Lake Tana and only 200 miles from Addis Ababa. Djibouti, the capital's port on the Gulf of Aden, was reported crowded with Italian refugees, and British military spokesmen began to predict a hasty Italian withdrawal to Addis Ababa for a strong last stand...
...Orange & Dirty Stories." Versatile as she is, mankind is probably not so much affected by the Lawrence looks and talent as by the enduring Lawrence charm. She suggests the rakish, amusing, grey hound-style young women who in the middle '205 obsessed the fastidious heroes of Michael Aden's novels of Mayfair. Actually this Mayfairian tone is something Gertie only gradually acquired. She did not come to the theatre from England's upper crust. Born in London on July 4, 1898, baptized as Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen, she was the daughter of a Danish interlocutor of a traveling minstrel...