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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...innovation in the historic exercises will see representatives of the graduating class receive their sheepskins. In previous ceremonies the candidates were graduated en masse by announcement...
Hainan Island is an important intermediary base for planes en route between Japanese factories and the South Seas. Yet it was practically defenseless: the Japs had stripped interior bases to concentrate defense strength on the outer rim of their sprawling empire. The presence of long-range bombers in China may compel the Japs to reallocate some of their defensive strength to the interior. But, to be telling, bombing raids must be sustained, and in greater force than the Allies have so far been able to assemble and supply in blockaded China...
...Great Circle. Even among airline men there are a few who still see no prospect of the air-navigated world en visioned by Billy Mitchell. They are astride a fence that airmen like Harold George have long ago taken in a hurdler's stride...
...quickly as the Poles appealed to the Red Cross, the Russians lashed at the Poles. At week's end Ambassador Tadeusz Romer left Moscow for Kuibyshev en route to Teheran. U.S. Ambassador William H. Standley saw him off. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr gave him a bottle of Scotch. Then they turned to seeking a settlement that would patch up the break for the duration. On the urgency and merits of this issue, the U.S. State Department and No. 10 Downing Street were in complete accord: nothing must be allowed to create a final schism between Russia...
...Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper, Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor and Washington Starman Blair Bolles last week were in London, en route to visit Sweden. National Broadcasting Co.'s London man, Elmer Peterson, will go with them...