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Secondly, the Portuguese cracked down on the refugees who have been funneled through Lisbon from all Europe since the start of World War II. By a new law, refugees who do not have visas or immediate steamship or plane reservations must go to prison, pay for their keep (50? to...
"The sole object of all these brutalities," he said, "is to annihilate French maritime power, cut off the metropolis from the Empire and isolate her from the rest of the world. . . .
> Naval architects were astonished by the way the Bismarck stood up under punishment. Bismarck's crew were convinced she was unsinkable, and they were almost right. She absorbed at least 20 16-in. shells from the Rodney, 15-in. shells from the Hood, and 14-in. shells from the...
In London Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies to postpone his trip to the U.S. and remain for a conference of Dominion leaders: New Zealand's Prime Minister Peter Fraser, on his way to London, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts...
Last week Arch Oboler doffed his inevitable sweat shirt in Hollywood, headed for Manhattan to talk over his sustaining series with NBC. Typical plot he has in mind: A man and wife live all by themselves in an apartment, refusing to speak to other occupants. Then a gangster moves into...