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Hungary's Little Men also promptly joined the grab. Anti-Axis Premier Count Paul Teleki had died by suicide or murder a fortnight before (TIME, April 14) and Hungary lost no time turning its four-months-old non-aggression pact with Yugoslavia into a scrap of paper. Grim, square-jawed Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy sent troops into Yugoslavia to seize 8,000 square miles of rich cornfields and dairy lands, watered by the Danube and Tisza Rivers, which the treaty makers took from Austria-Hungary after World...
...chess, war or the smash-&-grab of totalitarian diplomacy, the essence of strategy is to make a single move serve more than one offensive purpose. Strategically impeccable, therefore, was Japan's move-of-the-week, landing eight Army columns along a 250-mile strip of South China coast between Hong Kong and the Indo-China border. It was intended: 1) to menace one of free China's best supply lines; 2) to help isolate British Hong Kong; 3) to strengthen the position of the large Japanese garrison on Hainan Island just off the coast; 4) to make...
Honolulu citizens have long declared that something ought to be done. Last week something was. At the fisherman's wharf, U. S. customs officers seized ten alien-owned fishing craft, announced that they would grab 70 more when they got in from sea. Reason: fraudulent registration...
...nine league contests to date, the Crimson have a record of three wins against six losses, which puts them in a fourth place tie with Princeton. But, if there are no upsets in league games tonight, the Feslermen should grab undisputed possession of fourth. Third place Cornell is expected to down the Tigers tonight, while the Harvard five is also favored...
...King George. Since Carol left Rumania she has been doing what ruling is left for the royal family to do, conceivably would have been willing to do her Nazi regents a favor. But in whatever fashion the peace overture might proceed, it seemed clear that Hitler's Bulgarian grab would soon be succeeded by a wide Eastern Mediterranean push. At week's end, the great question was whether Britain's Imperial Army of the Nile, whose whereabouts have been unreported since the fall of Bengasi, was being convoyed under the guns of newly fortified Lemnos across...