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...planes of Japanese-controlled Dia Nippon Airways regularly take off in four directions. To the northwest they go to Dairen, Mukden and Hsinking in Manchukuo; to the south they reach the tiny islands of Palau, 500 miles closer to the U.S. than the Philippines, continue on to Portuguese Timor in the East Indies; to the west they roar to Shanghai, other Chinese cities; to the southwest they fly over Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand. The eastern and western arms of their airlines form a giant horseshoe around the Philippines...
...America was threatened by Germany, as it always is when the U. S. does something Germany dislikes. Nonetheless, Latin America was enthusiastic over passage of the bill. Cuba and Costa Rica sent congratulations to the U. S. Congress. In Panama and Nicaragua newspapers praised the Act. In Montevideo El Dia called it a triumph for Britain's cause. In Chile satisfaction was mixed with concern over the threat to Chile's long coast line, if the U. S. should go to war with Japan. Argentine newspapers were enthusiastic, but most of them forgot their enthusiasm when they learned...
...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
known as El Mundo al Dia ("The World to Date"), which was put on by NBC last December as the first U. S. short-wave show ever broadcast commercially...
What then of the Spee's commander? Was he a coward? El Dia said his Government forced him to protest that Spee was only unfit for sea, not unfit for battle. But sharp tongues in Buenos Aires flung painful taunts at wiry little Captain Hans Langsdorff, 45, after he came ashore so jauntily with his men, to be lionized by the city's German colony...