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What had started the riot was a wage differential, on a U.S. defense job, between native, colored Bahamians (81? a day) and imported, white Americans ($1.00 an hour). Promised the Duke: he would return to Washington and take up the matter with the proper Anglo-American authorities, with "a strong feeling that I will not return empty-handed...
Rumors of a United Nations thrust in Africa, before the peak heat comes, flew about in Rome last week like leaves in a skittish wind. Some said the offensive had already started with stepped-up R.A.F. activity over the Libyan deserts. Others reported that Anglo-American naval forces had concentrated "in the neighborhood of Tripoli." No Axis nerves were soothed when the Giornale d'ltalia announced that "the Anglo Saxons have succeeded recently in transporting strong reinforcements to their Egyptian bases...
...realist, he is dogmatic in his insistence that ethics are tools, that thought is relative. To a realist any form of internationalism is a cloak for a dominant group. To him a balanced power is fairer than any World Federation which would be simply a disguise for Anglo-American hegemony. One need not be a Utopian, however, to feel that Spykman's world order excludes any finite goal, any emotional appeal, or any basis for action. Even Karl Marx, after all, had to postulate a goal in which his discouraging dialectic no longer worked...
Great events are brewing today in Western Europe. Perhaps Hitler himself is planning a surprise drive to the West (see p. 23. Perhaps Hitler fears an Anglo-American attempt to set up a second front in the West. News came last week that Germany's brilliant Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, hero of the Nazi drive into the Ukraine, had been shifted to the Western Front, whether for offense or defense, and placed in command of Germany's coastal forces from Norway's far North Cape to Hendaye on the Spanish border...
...severe has been Lord Beaverbrook's asthma since he arrived in the U.S. last month that he has not been able to apply his genius to Anglo-American production. Instead, wearing only blue shorts and a black Homburg, he has been sunning himself at Miami Beach, Fla. Said he: "It is true that I suffer from both temperament and asthma but the asthma is a damn sight worse than the temperament...