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...that victory will only be possible through full cooperation among all the nations opposing Hitler. The Committee, nevertheless, declares we must fight alone. British forces in Singapore and Hong-Kong, and British war-vessels in the Pacific are fighting alongside us, while British sea-power in the Atlantic enables us to divert more of our fleet for the Asiatic struggle, yet the Committee accuses America of "neglecting her defenses by pursuing an irresponsible and sentimental pro-British policy...
Argentina's Acting President last week put his foot down, forbade 5,000 mass meetings scheduled throughout the country by the militant, pro-British Acción Argentina as public demonstrations of "adherence to the American front" and "faith in the ultimate victory of democracy." On the eve of the meetings, expected to turn out 100,000 people in Buenos Aires alone, Acting President Ramón S. Castillo decreed that the "attitude of Acción Argentina is contrary to the neutrality declared by the Argentine Government and to the dignity of the Argentine nation...
...over there?" Drawls the laconic airman: "Cloudy." The cinema's first reconstruction of the retreat from Dunkirk-which seems destined to become as useful in drama and story as the Battle of Waterloo-has a camera angle that is certainly non-Axis. Isolationist Senators might well call Yank pro-British propaganda. Even more obviously it is pro-box-office propaganda...
Herewith also is the TIME cover (accurately reproduced but without permission) and printed with a Spanish translation of TIME'S Niemöller story by Buenos Aires' pro-British magazine Desfile. The British Embassy distributed 25,000 copies of this reprint in Argentina, ordered 250,000 more for all South America...
Japanese justice usually takes into account the "patriotism" of political assassins. In Tokyo's Criminal Court last week nine Japanese were convicted of trying in 1939 to dynamite some "conservative statesmen" suspected of pro-British sentiments. Six got suspended sentences. The severest sentence handed down was 30 months in jail. The court did not embarrass the criminals by naming their intended victims...