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Yellow Lava. When the Allies divided Germany's Pacific empire after World War I, Australia shared New Guinea half-&-half with the Dutch, also got the neighboring Bismarck Archipelago and renamed its chief islands New Britain and New Ireland. Similarly mandated to Australia were the nearby, seemingly insignificant Solomons. Japan got the Marshalls and the Carolines. All the mandating powers promised not to fortify their new protectorates...
...British Embassy the presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook...
...Around Bismarck, whence he came, Bill Langer has a stanch following of voters who feel that he is just as good as the next man. They twice elected him Governor. When he was tried on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government in administering relief, one jury convicted him, another disagreed, a third set him free. But when his people sent him to the Senate last year, a group of North Dakota citizens protested...
...Prince of Wales was attacked by a swarm of torpedo bombers. She was hit astern, her propellers and steering gear knocked out. This was exactly the kind of blow by which the British themselves had crippled the Bismarck...
John Catterall Leach, tall, fair and skinny, was 47 years old, had won the D.S.O. for his part in the Bismarck affair. He gave a continuous running commentary of the action against the Bismarck over the public-address system for the benefit of the crew buried below. When a shell hit the compass platform beside him, killing or wounding nearly everyone. Captain Leach, though badly ruptured by the blast, continued his account until the Bismarck sank. He was hospitalized for some time, returned to the Prince of Wales in time for the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting...