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Fortnight ago, "the only man in the Western Hemisphere who could sabotage the war effort in 24 hours"* slipped into Washington. Last week, he departed. He climbed into his grey sedan and headed south-a man on a mission...
...Daladier speak of French-Polish military agreements, and ruled that events long antedating the declaration of war were not subject to survey. But the men in Vichy had reason to crawl when Daladier read into the record that in 1934, Petain had refused to strengthen fortifications at Sedan (where German troops first broke through in May 1940), that it was Petain who in 1934 slashed a military appropriation from 600,000,000 to 400,000,000 francs, that the Supreme War Council had refused to consider new types of guns...
Exceptional correspondent is U.P.'s Frank Hewlett (former acting Manila bureau chief). Whereas the others hitchhike, he sports a Chevrolet sedan with a small Filipino chauffeur named Hoolio. Grinning Hoolio has been nicknamed the "Sage of Bataan...
Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose produced, costumed and acted in Cinderella, a Christmas pantomime given "somewhere in England." Margaret Rose took the title role, Elizabeth played the Prince. One of their props from the royal attic: an old sedan chair of Queen Anne...
Three hours passed before a police car overtook the sedan and rammed it. Out of the sedan the police dragged the driver, middle-aged Philip Joseph War, a Royal Artillery gunner on leave. The score of his marksmanship: one man, two women dead; four women wounded...