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...weeks ago grateful Metlakatlans saw a chance to repay the U. S. for favors received (which do not include relief). The U. S. Army Air Corps had set its eye on Annette Island for a flying base, as part of its plan for the fortification of Alaska (TIME, Aug. 5). Promptly the followers of good Father Duncan voted to invite the Army on to their reservation, where until 20 years ago no white man was allowed to land...
...India in, without asking India's wishes, and made vague promises of dominion status after the war. Indian nationalists, though naturally dissatisfied, showed-and still were showing last week-great restraint in not pressing Britain in the emergency. It was expected that Lord Linlithgow's statement would repay India for this restraint...
...aircraft engine plant near Cincinnati, upping U. S. engine capacity by 12,000 per year. In return Wright Aeronautical Corp. guaranteed to deliver to the Army 20,115 aircraft engines in 1941-42, and gave the Army an option on 20,115 more. Wright Aeronautical Corp. presumably expects to repay a good part of the loan from profits on the orders. Mr. Knudsen's task this week is to convince other manufacturers that they can safely take the same risks...
...Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took no trouble to make King Carol's capitulation easy. On the contrary, he handed Rumanian Minister Gheorghe Davidescu a brusque note demanding Bessarabia and northern Bucovina within 24 hours. The ceding of northern Bucovina, which, unlike Bessarabia, Russia never owned, would repay Russia for waiting 20 years for Bessarabia, said Viacheslav Mikhailovich. When Minister Davidescu returned to ask for negotiations to determine the procedure of transfer, Premier Molotov said flatly that the Red Army would begin to move in at 2 that afternoon and gave the Rumanian Army four days to clear...
Pater Noster Our pirate who art British, usurper of our blood, may the massacre of sanction-ists arrive as you have willed it, on sea as on land. End for today and for always your designs on Abyssinia, repay us our debts of 1915 to 1918, as we will repay to your credit the dumdum bullets you sold the Negus. Amen...