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...Janeiro's Teatro Municipal, an audience of 3,000 saw the first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
Balletomane Kirstein's tour is strictly business. If South America doesn't like it, all right. If it does, the Caravan will dance until Christmas, or until the gunpowder comes out at the heels of its shoes. Last week Mr. Kirstein unbent, cabled his Manhattan office: OPENING GREAT SUCCESS LOVE...
When the raiders struck again last week, the British were working with General Charles de Gaulle's forces once more. As before, a Free French column pressed up the ancient Faya-Tekro caravan route from Chad, swung out into the Libyan desert, where they were joined by the British. This time they even had planes to help them. They raced in over the Cufra oases, an important refueling centre for Italian transport planes supplying Italy's East African Armies, smashed the airfield and opened the way for a successful attack by mechanized ground troops...
Threatened with the loss of the Burma Road, Chungking talked of leaning more heavily on the long-way-round supply line that helped greatly when Britain closed the Burma Road last year-the 3,100-mile rail and caravan route from Vladivostok to Chita and Lanchow. But last week Soviet Russia and Japan sat down to negotiate a trade treaty-which might lead to the long-prophesied non-aggression pact and the closing of Vladivostok to supplies for China...
This anachronistic force tagged along behind a string of Free French tanks and trucks as it crept into southernmost Libya. The caravan pushed 200 miles across the desert to el-Gatrún, which the Free Frenchmen took without so much as seeing an Italian. They went 100 miles further to the more important outpost of Múrzuch, where there was both garrison and airport. When the Free French were sighted, all the Italians went into the post and shut the gates tight. The Free French men surrounded the post in mock siege, spent a day leisurely destroying hangars...