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Novikoff-Priboy was a paymaster's steward on the Russian battleship Oryol, captured at Tsushima. To while away the long months of imprisonment in Japan he wrote down his eyewitness report of the battle, gathered enough material from fellow-eyewitnesses to fill a trunk. When these notes were all burnt in a riot, he set to and did the job a second time. Back in Russia after the war, Novikoff-Priboy became a known revolutionary, had to flee the country. He left his Tsushima notes with his brother, who hid them so well he forgot where...
...obscure but active Vimalert Co. Ltd. has been reconditioning and selling planes and parts here & there-including, through Amtorg, the U. S. S. R.-for the past 15 years. Mr. Cuse is listed with the State Department as a salesman of everything lethal from a bomb to a battleship. When Chief Green tried to put State Department pressure on Mr. Cuse, the latter would not stay pressured. He demanded a license to sell $2,777,000 worth of aviation equipment to the Spanish Reds and, amid a great sweep of national headlines and much furore in official Washington...
...last week to a new commander, Rear Admiral Rolf Carls. Simultaneously Nazi warships in Spanish waters began to swagger. The cruiser Konigsberg had been "commanding" Spanish Reds by radio to set free the seized Nazi steamer Palos (TIME, Jan. 4). When the Reds remained obdurate last week, the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec seized the Aragon, a Spanish steamer. These nautical "acts of war" (as Madrid called them) would have meant more had not Der Führer already landed on Spanish soil such important numbers of German troops, almost an army of occupation...
...electromagnets affixed to the side of a battleship and designed to attract any enemy submarine lurking in the vicinity. When the submarine is sucked to the battleship's side, the occupants are automatically electrocuted...
...come out with something tangible to its credit. Too often in the past have the hopes of waiting nations been reduced to disillusionment through months of selfish quarrelings and too many times have delegations repacked their luggage to trail home empty-handed. Economic conferences, disarmament conferences, treaty revision conferences, battleship parleys, tariff discussions all have been proposed, all have been acclaimed by millions and all have spent time and wasted money with little to show for it. In short the nations of the world have talked, but few have acted in concert or with the aim of peace or concord...