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...start late this summer, Pan Am will pull one of its B-314s off the Atlantic run, reinforce its hull for Pacific operation. The American Clipper will make the run in four and a half days (steamship time: 17 days), may well be filled with westbound mail formerly shipped eastward over British Overseas Airways via Karachi and Singapore, to Britain's Australasian colonies. With six new B-314s on order, Pan Am can step up service on the New Zealand run next year when new Clippers are to be delivered...
...Major George Fielding Eliot said: "The historical and fundamental German objective is in the east of Europe, not in the west . . . Hence any war Germany fights in the West is primarily for the purpose of freeing its hands--providing, as Hitler says, a 'rearcover' for the continuance of its eastward march." Yet Mr. Conant prefers to believe that a German victory in the present war will menace us directly. Such fears should hardly be made the basis of our national policy...
Thunder rumbled over the Mediterranean one day last week. The British-French Mediterranean fleet ploughed eastward to a rendezvous at Alexandria, Egypt. Lighter craft of the Italian. Turkish and British Navies played hide & seek among the islands of the Aegean. And in London the Admiralty announced that the Mediterranean was closed to British merchant ships-they should forsake the strait at Gibraltar and go the long way to the Orient round Cape of Good Hope...
...explanation: "Pronouncements by Italians in responsible positions and the attitude of the Italian press have been recently of such a character as to make it necessary for His Majesty's Government to take certain precautions. . . ." Next day the Admiralty doubled its precautions by sending an Allied fleet steaming eastward to Alexandria, where it could keep a sharp eye on the Italians at the mouth of the Aegean...
Battle fleets steaming eastward in the Mediterranean last week (see p. 30) put fresh fear in the hearts of the unhappy people who live in Southeast Europe. By land, too, danger came closer to those frightened neutral nations that lie in the path of eastward-looking conquerors. Troops stood ready for action a stone's throw from their frontiers; spies and quislings swarmed in their midst; while pressure politicians increased their demands for concessions and still more concessions. Signs of trouble...