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Raging at Mr. Chamberlain's announcement, the German Government charged that Simon Bolivar's sinking was a British job horridly staged as excuse for an export embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as under it. German agents in Belgium and The Netherlands let those two neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated...
Foulest blow of this new Nazi in-fighting landed under the belly of the 8,3O9-ton Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, carrying 170 crew and 230 passengers for Paramaribo, Surinam. Coasting at midday about 16 miles off Harwich, England, through a calm, sunny sea, she ran into two mines which tore out her bottom, killed her captain and about 100 others, injured 200. Most of the passengers were German-Jewish refugees, scores of them children...
Survivors told of seeing fellow passengers blown along the decks like tenpins. The first blast's force lifted the whole ship out of water forward. Officers on the bridge were slain at their posts. The second explosion burst Bolivar's fuel tanks and the sea around her became filled with swimmers gasping and spluttering in black oil. One rescued baby was officially listed as a pickaninny, then scrubbed, and listed as white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers...
They met in realization of a heroic vision a shag-haired 19th-Century revolutionary named Simon Bolivar lived for-the cooperation of the American countries as equal and sovereign states forever at peace. And from seat No. 19, where sat Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, came a proposal that the Americas guard their seas from...
...biography already in production, more on the production line. Under way are Young Mr. Lincoln, Stanley and Livingstone, Beethoven, Man of Conquest (Sam Houston), Man in the Iron Mask, Juarez, Brigham Young, Knute Rockne. Promised for next season are Mme Curie, Thomas Edison, Rudolph Valentino, Steinmetz, Lillian Russell, Simon Bolivar, Nobel. Last week the first spring shoot of this bumper crop appeared on U. S. screens. The biggest job to date of Hollywood's sole socialite director, Henry Codman ("Hank") Potter, it is a $1,500,000 close-up of Irene and Vernon Castle, produced by RKO Radio...