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...Said the Rev. Francis J. Connell, a professor at the Catholic University of Washington, D.C.: "The use of the atomic bomb was simply murder." ¶ The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of tens of millions of Moslems, declared in Calcutta that he favored the creation of a "supernational state" to regulate bomb production. Barring that, he would feel safest if the U.S. kept the secret to itself...
...something too. The examiners recommended that Pan Am hold its prewar mid-Pacific service from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hong Kong via Manila, expand to Tokyo, Bangkok, Batavia and Calcutta, where it would connect up with Pan Am's routes east from New York, thus nearly circle the globe. It would also keep its prewar route to New Zealand and add a route to Australia via Noum...
Cholera, which raged in Calcutta in May, got out of hand in Chungking in June. China's crowded, noisome wartime capital, which gets part of its water supply from the same river which receives its garbage and sewage (and the rest of its water wherever handy), is almost helpless against the disease. Last week the pestilence was still spreading - 8,000 cases to date, of which about 20% have died...
...extended Pan Am's present route to London, via Bermuda, through Europe and the Near East to Calcutta. American Export, which now flies to Foynes, Ireland, and Lisbon, was given two north Atlantic routes and will fly all the way to Moscow. T.W.A. was also given two routes, one via Newfoundland and Foynes to Bombay, the other via Lisbon and Rome to Cairo...
...Said Calcutta: "Hum Calcutta se bolte hein Calcutta calling...