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...south and east from the foot of Thailand (Siam) across the Java Sea to Papua lie The Netherlands East Indies, whence the U. S. gets major portions of two strategic materials: rubber and tin. With The Netherlands at war, Japan might cut off that supply, alternatively might exploit a grab by controlling production, prices...
Gene Clark, George Downing, Torby Macdonald, Dave Simboll, and Charlie Smith are among those who will not compete. Bill Shallow and Jim Light-body, however, will face the Hanoverians and should grab off a trio of firsts to swell the Crimson total...
...Possible Grab. Should Adolf Hitler be so improvident as to dribble The Netherlands Indies ball in Japan's direction by invading Holland-it looked as if he might for a few days last week-could Japan pick it up? She probably could. Britain and France would be able to offer only limited interference. Since many U. S. experts consider the Philippines untenable in war, it is highly unlikely that the Pacific Fleet would care to contest an Indies grab. The U. S. people, knowing that Asia is a long way off, feel that it is not up to them...
Rote. Last week the State Department (and, presumably, the diplomats most concerned) were caught with their heads in their diplomatic pouches. For a week the Department had expected a Nazi grab at Denmark and Norway-b,ut not before May 1. The night Hitler jumped the gun, Norway's slight, long-nosed Minister Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne paid a midnight visit to Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle. A telephone call from busy Mr. Berle woke Cordell Hull at 1 a.m.: Franklin Roosevelt was allowed to sleep on until 3 a.m. A special train was waiting to return...
...with Britain over coal, in the end managed to have most of his coal and burn Ribbentrop too. Last week he had everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press would not print them. Il Duce moved to renew the British trade talks, and French Premier Reynaud had a long and apparently pleasant talk with Ambassador Raffaele Guariglia. But as French Ambassador André François-Poncet returned to Paris, L'Oeuvre commented...