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...Good Neighborliness that includes parallel export control systems (in some instances more stringent than the U.S. parent system); an enforced blacklist (U.S.-drafted) of Axis-influenced firms; 80 to 100 Axis ships immobilized in Latin American ports for hemisphere use; agreements whereby the U.S. gets first call (literally an airtight monopoly) on vast supplies of strategic materials...
Significant was the convention's treatment of two men who have been Legion heroes for almost a quarter-century: Missouri's beet-faced, belligerent Senator Bennett Champ Clark, New York's gangling, ham-handed Representative Hamilton Fish, both airtight, waterproof, hermetically sealed Isolationists. Clark, one of the 17 Legion founders and the first permanent Legion chairman, was roundly booed. Fish, who wrote the preamble to the Legion constitution, came to town to make converts, soon gave up and left...
...Chinese retook Foochow. The Japanese could have held it - but they were concentrating all available for more spectacular adventures on the road to glory (see p. 23). The Chinese nevertheless thought the achievement brilliant. It was the first time since the Japanese had sealed the south China coast almost airtight last spring (TIME, May 5) that the Chinese had fought their way into possession of a major seaport...
Pressure for more relief will undoubtedly increase. With it will increase pressure for relaxation of the British blockade. This is what the Ambassador wants. But many Frenchmen in the U. S. are convinced that, whatever the consequences, to win the war Britain must maintain an airtight blockade. This, they say, is the real reason why U. S. citizens should distrust Ambassador Henry-Haye...
...vast are the Orient oceans, so wide the trade routes leading over them to Dairen and Vladivostok, that any airtight blockade of Germany's Asian door is unthinkable. The distance across Siberia (6,000 miles), plus the fact that the Reds are hustling to build electrical, steel and shipbuilding industries in Eastern Siberia, gave Mr. Maisky's oath a ring of honesty...