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Instantly, an outcry against the decision went up from those who would not face the facts. The facts included: ¶Spain's position on the map makes it a prime element in European defense, especially in air and sea war. ¶Franco cannot be wished away. The U.S., Britain and France could probably have forced him out in 1946, if they had been willing to risk the consequences, including possible armed intervention in another Spanish civil war. They burked the challenge then; their half measures of diplomatic ostracism only strengthened Franco with his own people. ¶Nobody denied that...
...Star-Times's 48-man staff worked around the clock on the big story. When the Star needed a detail map to show the destruction of the industrial district, Cub Reporter Bob Beason went into the water and waded and swam from building to building to assess damage. Reporter Bill Blair and Photographer Bob Youker persuaded a passing Army amphibious truck to ferry them about, were arrested for their enterprise; their soldier-chauffeur and truck were AWOL from Fort Leavenworth...
Under the Bully Choops. The Klamath does not look like much on a map, but its annual flow is 10 million acre-feet, about equal to one of the poorer years of the Colorado. According to one plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another...
Regarding the controversy between patriotic Spaniards and the Festival of Britain as to who was the first man to sail around the world [TIME, July 2]: Leonard Outhwaite, in Unrolling the Map, published in 1935, says that "the first individual known to history to have passed around the world was a treacherous East Indian slave" known as Malacca Henry. Magellan bought him when he was in the East with Almeida between 1504 and 1512 and took him back to Spain. Magellan made this voyage by traveling eastward from Portugal. When he made his great voyage he sailed westward, taking Malacca...
...Force announced conclusion of an agreement with France to build five permanent air bases and a permanent headquarters for the Strategic Air Command's 5th Air Division in Morocco. From Britain, an unrevealed number of B50 medium bombers flew to the new bases (see map) described as "under development." ¶The U.S. reached agreement with Saudi Arabia to use its huge U.S.-built Dhahran Airfield for the next five years. Hitherto, the U.S. has had only year-to-year agreements. The field can handle the Air Force's largest strategic bombers, commands the whole Middle East area...