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...movement is afoot to change the name of the Islands to "Quezon." Already there is a Quezon City. Students of the State-supported University of the Philippines have organized a Quezon-for-King Club. It was apparent last week to many an observer that the Philippines, given ten years to learn how a democracy should be run, were instead learning how to run a dictatorship. It was the first Government under the U. S. flag to edge towards totalitarianism...
...tell friends and newspaper reporters. The Perseus had been on patrol in Bering Strait where only 54 miles of water separates Continental Alaska from Continental Siberia. Out in the Strait, the Perseus had stopped at U. S.-owned Little Diomede Island with a mission: to find out what was afoot on Soviet-owned Big Diomede just one and a half miles away and across the International Date Line (see map). The crew said that Russian workmen were building an airplane hangar on Big Diomede, replacing its radio station with a bigger one, that Big Diomede with its smooth ice runways...
...ceases to be mistress of the seas, the new mistress is almost certain to be either 1) Germany and her allies or 2) the U. S. and its allies (if any). Recognition of this fact is implicit in the two-ocean navy program which the U. S. already has afoot...
...announced that Transradio and British United Press must "show their news source is accurate" or lose their licenses on July 1. B. U. P. was quietly reinstated a few days later. Meanwhile, Transradio's President Herbert Samuel Moore stormed up to Ottawa, angrily claiming there was a plot afoot by "selfish publishing and monopolistic interests ... to destroy independent news services throughout the Dominion." Last week CBC (which sits in judgment on all Canadian broadcasters) reconsidered, agreed to let Transradio Press continue indefinitely. But CBC still frowns on sponsored news, announced that it will work out a new plan...
...weeks (TIME, May 6 et ante), Dutch military authorities last week swooped down on suspect strongholds in The Hague, Haarlem, Amsterdam. They carted away and interned 21 Nazis, Communists, etc., including National Socialist Party Editor M. M. Rost van Tonninggen, member of The Netherlands Second Chamber. That something was afoot in the Low Countries was indicated by the fact that within 24 hours the Belgian Government put visa requirements in effect on her Netherlands and Luxembourg frontiers, arrested two Flemish Nationalists...