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...been, however, to beat Japan at sea. It has been to keep the fleet in position so that Japan could not risk overseas adventure. Withdraw the fleet to the Atlantic and the U. S. may soon begin to see the conquests that its fleet has hitherto forestalled without fighting. Already the costs of that withdrawal have been counted. The U. S. with its half-based fleet in the Pacific might have to pay the costs anyhow. Japan well knows that with the U. S. Fleet in the Atlantic, the U. S. would have...
That smart tough dumpy little man, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, knows how to face facts. Last week he faced the big fact hitherto ignored by the British Government: what Great Britain needs most is airplanes...
...toured the countryside to let isolated farm communities hear the voices from the ether. Ryots (farmers) looked upon the sound truck with suspicion: they thought it probably meant more taxes. In one mud village skeptical natives listened in ominous silence to the "voice from Delhi"; when the engineer, hitherto unseen, was spotted inside the van after the broadcast, they clamored indignantly that they had been duped. Bokhari, trying to pacify them, promised to bring the voice back while the engineer remained outside, in plain view. Bokhari threw the switch, fiddled with the dials-no sound. Delhi had gone...
...their lovely confederate, the fake Countess Vronsky (Zorina), falls in love and marries one of their well-to-do victims (Richard Greene). Then they go to work on Zorina. This sinister frolic is almost as sure to please U. S. cinemaddicts as the work of its three principal participants-hitherto sick headaches to the industry-pleased their producers...
Austrian and German refugees, hitherto permitted their freedom, were rounded up and interned just in case some of them might turn out to be quislers. Outside London, curfew for all aliens, friendly or not, rang at 8 p.m. Motorized troops and police roved everywhere, stopping cars and examining credentials...