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...Premier António de Oliveira Salazar. Doubtless they tried to solidify the one complete agreement between neutral Portugal and nonbelligerent, pro-Axis Spain. Both want to suffer as little damage as possible from the shocks and tremors of World War II. But Spain surrounds-and covets-the British fortress of Gibraltar, and Portugal's coastline and islands are fast becoming vital in the Battle of the Atlantic. It was, therefore, hard to believe that Spain and Portugal could long enjoy their neutral never-never land...
...news from Singapore could not be much worse. Nothing short of a miracle can prevent the Japanese from capturing this "practically impregnable" fortress in a very few days, perhaps even hours. When Singapore falls, the last hope of a relatively short war against Japan will disappear, and America will have to climb down out of its cloud of wishful thinking and face the hard, cruel facts of a hard, cruel...
...enemy who sets foot in our fortress must be dealt with immediately...
...Philippines the Jap was willing to pay dearly. So last week, the sixth of the Battle of Luzon, he lashed fiercely at General Douglas MacArthur's tough little Army. MacArthur's men, holed up in the mountain-wild Bataan peninsula with an anchor below on the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay, gave better than they received...
Like Tetrazzini, Soprano Calvé tried to cash in on her name with a U.S. vaudeville tour, in 1927. Then she returned to Millau, where she owned a fortress-like château, to raise sheep, train younger singers, entertain elderly gallants. She sold the château before World...