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Westbound Pan American Clipper passengers over the Pacific look down on Guam with relief. Its rocky bluffs rise over the water; 30 miles to the south, dim Mount Sasalaguan looms; its peaceful, prosperous villages, policed by the Marine Corps, make it a spectacularly successful example of U. S. colonization. At this time of year the rainy season is ending; travelers take their ease on the long porch of the Pan American Hotel, overlooking the harbor...
This remarkable dissertation was printed last week in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's Elite Guard. Very different was a British document on the subject of "taking it" which arrived by clipper in the U. S. last week for early release-a seven-minute news film prepared by the British Ministry of Information. Title: London Can Take It. The picture is an unvarnished record of what happens to London and Londoners when hundreds of tons of explosive and incendiary bombs are dropped upon them day and night, week in, week out. For U. S. audiences...
Four correspondents and a cameraman -weary after many a sleepless night, nerve-racked from continual bombardment -last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed...
...mother's side of the family were the Goodwins, clipper ship captains from Newburyport; and Nathan Hale; and Edward Everett Hale, who wrote The Man Without A Country about a man who wanted to sell America...
During the final collapse of France, Morize managed to keep one day ahead of the Germans, joining the mass trek of refugees with his car filled with three trunkloads of official records. He had to wait 10 days in Lisbon before he could find a space on the clipper to America...