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Joan Fontaine (Mrs. Brian Aherne, the former Joan De Havilland) became a U.S. citizen. She gave up the British citizenship which she and Sister Olivia acquired from father Walter De Havilland in their natal Tokyo. (Father, a onetime professor, who divorced their mother and married a Japanese maid, was last heard from in Denver with Wife...
...Union of South Africa, home of 2.000,000 dominant whites, 7,000,000 blacks and 250,000 Indians, grappled last week with an ugly racial problem. In Durban, chief port and swank resort of Natal Province, prosperous Indian merchants and farmers (mostly descendants of laborers imported in the 19th Century) had bought $3,000,000 worth of property in the past two and a half years, had moved into new homes in the city's toniest suburbs...
Alarmed by this breach of the Union's rigid taboos, Parliament stood ready to forbid further property acquisitions by non-whites in Natal. Behind the measure stood hardheaded, international-minded Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Said he: Durban must remain a "white city," rich Indians should invest in war loans...
...miles from Liberia the President turned up aboard a U.S. destroyer anchored in Brazil's winding Po-tengy River at Natal. There he conferred with round, determined little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, an "old friend." After long conversations, sometimes in Franklin Roosevelt's schoolboy French, sometimes through an interpreter, the two Presidents announced that they were determined to keep the Atlantic Ocean "safe for all," that Africa's Dakar must never again become "a blockade or an invasion threat against the two Americas." And once more the President rode in a jeep-with his Brazilian confrere-this...
...student of chemical engineering. When stricken last week, popular, modest young Getulio was working in São Paulo's Nitro Chymica chemical-manufacturing company. His father and mother rushed to his bedside. Four days after the diagnosis of infantile paralysis President Vargas left for a conference at Natal. From his good friend Franklin D. Roosevelt he could expect deep sympathy and an inspiring example of recovery from the dread illness which had stricken...