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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue was open. Vice Admiral Storni was the leading pro-Allied and pro-rupture figure in the Government. The President stood between the two extremes. He could save Argentina's destiny by following his Foreign Minister's course, leaving the way open for the rupturists to form a Government which would immediately break with the Axis powers, line up the country with the United Nations. Or he could save Argentina's pride & prejudice by figuratively telling Hull to go to hell and opening his arms to anti-rupturists extremists. That is what...
...scheme, no delay on the ground fronts can save Germany from air attack on a scale which will dwarf all that the Germans have suffered to date. Sooner or later Italy-and surrendered Corsica-will provide bases for a southern air offensive coordinated with multiplied assault from Britain. Then, under the impact of defeats and bombs, the German people may have something to say about Hitler's choice...
...like to drive motorcars, tune in on radios. With their own hands New Guinea natives built a cathedral at Dogura. Wand consecrated it four years ago. He has many a tale to tell about the native loathing of the Japanese and how New Guineans have risked their skins to save Allied soldiers from the enemy. Wand claims that this loyalty is due to the missionaries' work. Since the Jap came, native respect for them has risen even more, because the missionaries did not run away. So far the Japs have killed nine Anglican missionaries in New Guinea...
...Transatlantic is to have three continuing features: 1) a Crowther commentary on what is going on in the U.S.; 2) a Washington letter by the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond; 3) "incidental notes on the state of the States" by U.S. Critic Carl Van Doren. The rest (save the advertising at ?75 a page) is and will be an all-American contribution. The U.S. editorial staff is a "steering committee" headed by Author Margaret Leech (Reveille in Washington...
...stage. In an Omaha production of A Kiss For Cinderella she tried her best not to hog the show, for the sake of a shy, obscure young Omaha actor named Henry Fonda, who has never forgotten the kindness. But her automatic ability to charm an audience did not save Dorothy McGuire a few hard years. Her skillful replacement of Martha Scott in Our Town went unnoticed; her understudying of Julie Haydon in The Time of Your Life got her nowhere...