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...week Mr. Welles arrived at the Vatican at 9:48 a. m. and left Pope Pius XII at 11:05 a.m. Following evening he left Rome, reached Genoa at 6:30 the next morning and, after a four-hour rest at his hotel, he went aboard the Conte di Savoia, which sailed at noon. The ship anchored at Gibraltar at 5:30 a. m., was boarded by British officers at 8, thoroughly searched by them (looking for German Economist Dr. Schacht, said rumors, while Berlin said he was there) and sailed...
...relief organizations, mostly headquartered in Manhattan. The time has come when no movie star, foreign or domestic, who knows her publicity onions fails to show her war knitting as well as her knees to the news-camera. Example: British Madeleine Carroll, arriving last week on the Conte di Savoia...
...Russian bombers raided the port of Turku, set fire to its 700-year-old castle, and the Finns retaliated with a remarkably successful raid on the Estonian island of Oesel in the Baltic, damaging the Russian air base. The three Finnish raiders were led by an Italian-made Savoia-Marchetti bomber...
Officially they did not cross Germany, on their way to bomb the Latvian air bases of Germany's pledged partner Russia. But if the Savoia-Marchettis did not cross German territory, then they arrived in Finland through some fourth dimension, for the British Intelligence Service pointed out that they did not take and were not given permission to take the roundabout route across the German-Allied western battle zone...
...Russians' overwhelming superiority was slowly being balanced. Italy sent 80 Savoia-Marchettis to Finland and Britain sent 30 Bristol Blenheims. If the sub-zero temperatures and the shortage of daylight did not cripple their effectiveness, the Finns had a good target in Russia's two main supply lines, the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway and the Baltic-White Sea Canal. Aggressive and continuous air attack on the rail line would leave Russia's raiding columns marooned in the wastes of north Finland. By week's end the Finns had taken to the air and were reported to have...