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...South Seas. Although military airmen's eyes were fixed on the North Polar icecap as the likeliest no man's land of a future war (because the military strength of the world is in the northern hemisphere), most of the proposed new bases were much nearer the Equator...
...which U.S. strategists had sought to push eastward across the Atlantic was rectified in midocean. But far to the south, it bent eastward: the little ash-heap of Ascension, whose importance was not realized until midway in the war, was under British sovereignty, and the British would be reasonable. Nearer home, the chain of Western Hemisphere bases from Newfoundland to British Guiana, obtained in the destroyer deal of 1940, was secure for 93 more years...
...Etonian, who lives and paints in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, he calls his own style "social painting." Says he: "Goya's is no less social than mine. And even if you like Goya better, you will have to concede . . . that my work is no nearer to ... politics than...
Recently he participated in a debate with Cord Meyer, Jr. at Wellesley on the subject of world government immediately as opposed to the support of the UN. Finer argued in favor of the United Nations, expressing the opinion that it is impossible to achieve anything nearer a world federation in the present stage of international relations and human thought...
...dismissed Claude Bourdet, new director general of French broadcasting. Also suspended was moonfaced Scriptwriter Jean Nocher, who complained: "I can't understand. I intentionally put all kinds of whoppers in it [so listeners would know it was a joke]. For instance, I made Catholics sing a Protestant hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee...