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...land planes with British markings flew over Japanese positions last week. The British could offer no explanation, saying there were no British land planes nearer than Hong Kong. Japanese resentment, ignited fortnight ago when the British permitted 377 Chinese soldiers to escape to the British lines (TIME, Nov. 8), was at snapping point...
...days clicked off, winter crept nearer, and the big offensive did not start, but Rightist chances in Spain and in the world outside (see p. 20) seemed bright enough for Burgos papers to carry this typical Spanish boast over the signature of Francisco Franco: "The war is won! It will finish with a general collapse of our opposition which each day becomes more certain. One day Spain will wake up and have the surprise of learning the war is over!" Boasted back the city of Madrid on banners unfurled Nov. 7 "On Nov. 7th we crushed Franco.! . . . Long live Madrid...
...Goldwyn for Hurricane, as a jungle-woman who lived on bananas, coconuts, papayas. A monkey and a leopard were planted in her apartment, over her protests, until the monkey got loose, so disturbed other tenants that police were called. Miss Lamour (nee Slaton), 22, has never been nearer a jungle than the isthmus at Catalina Island, where parts of Hurricane were filmed. She is a 5 ft. 5 in., 117-lb., healthy, heavy-lipped New Orleans girl who won a beauty contest, went to Chicago, sang with Herbie Kay's orchestra on a "celebrity night" program, married...
...dead earnest, the private comments of not a few ruling-class Britons on the international situation as Parliament convened last week were in this vein: Until our Rearmament is a good deal nearer completion, there is nothing for the Government to do but continue putting as good a face as possible on the fact that Britain for the time being is not a First-Class Power. Such a policy is deeply repugnant to us and to the country, and it will be pursued no longer than is absolutely necessary, but at present it is the only safe policy-and Britain...
...takes a long while for news to seep from the jungle. Only last week did news come from Port-au-Prince, Haiti to the world of a battle that in any country nearer a cable office would have made headlines...