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...resolute stand against Germany and Russia was further evidenced - and explained - by a scene last week in Sofia, capital of Rumania's southern and (until lately) cool neighbor Bulgaria. Rumania's Finance Minister Mitita Constantinescu, after a two-day visit talking politics and economics with the Bulgarians, bade them farewell by crying: "Long live Bulgaria!" and joining his hosts in throwing top hats into...
...Cabell has wandered far afield since he bade farewell to Poictesme. He has explored the land of dreams, Renaissance Italy and now Jutland of the saga-time. But the new climes have not been, on the whole, congenial. For a writer of Mr. Cabell's peculiar gifts, the world of his own imagining was the most comfortable. Certainly his attempt to restore a world and a story which have been clouded over by Shakespeare's play makes neither sense nor a good novel. He may say of Poictesme, as Touchstone once said, "When I I was at home...
Turkey's alliance with Britain and France also bade fair to ease German pressure on the little Balkan States. Backed by such a powerful neighbor, Rumania, Greece and Yugoslavia may now take a more independent and fearless course than so far they have dared...
...what was going to happen to India during the war. Was India's dominion status a war aim? Dominion status, replied Lord Linlithgow, was certainly an aim of His Majesty's Government-after the war. In London, the Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India, bade Indians meanwhile to "strive after that agreement among themselves without which they will surely fail to achieve that unity which is an essential of the nationhood of which those with vision among her leaders have long dreamed...
...plane production. It was in 1936 that Britain finally woke up to the appalling state of her Air Force. At the end of last year Britain was producing only about 200 planes a month, but by last week they had almost achieved a rate of 1,000 per month, bade fair to overtake the German rate soon...