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...with Paris, where she had hurt her ankle in the blackout and food was frightfully dear, Dressmaker Elsa Schiaparelli arrived by Clipper in New York...
This week the 42½-ton California Clipper sat down on the dirty, boat-infested waters of Singapore Harbor, thus completed the first scheduled Pan American Airways trip from San Francisco to Singapore. To U.S. shippers and businessmen this meant that travel time to Singapore had been cut from 25 days by steamer to six. But to diplomats it meant that the U.S., Britain and The Netherlands had formed a united front against further Japanese airline penetration in the area...
...official as they heard last week. The plain talker was big (196 Ib.) Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. Homeward bound after a 30,000-mile tour of the British Empire, fresh from ten weeks with the War Cabinet in London, the Prime Minister stepped out of the Clipper to be greeted by Australian Minister Richard Casey. Then, with no kowtowing to supposed U.S. sensibilities, he let fly with a statement on war aims, flew in a camouflaged bomber to Ottawa, returned to Washington to talk with Secretary Hull, win over the correspondents, have an hour-long bedside conference...
Last week Britain's No. 1 economist arrived in the U.S. Off the Clipper stepped softspoken, twinkle-eyed, tall (6 ft. 1 in.) John Maynard Keynes, on an undisclosed mission under the Lend-Lease Act. He also expected to see the President, whom he last saw in 1934, when New Deal fiscal policies were in the blueprint stage. Keynes was the intellectual father of many of the New Deal's more radical fiscal policies, notably deficit spending and low interest rates. Since then he has become the father of a war-financing plan for Britain...
...shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, heard his first air-raid alarm (minus planes), got ready to fly to Cairo for a firsthand view of British Near East strategy. Seeking Pacific Clip per passage for himself and Major Gerald Thomas, his companion, Jimmy had found the Clipper booked up. Most vulnerable reservation was that of a U.S. General. Captain Roosevelt...