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...axiom that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line is a luxury of peacetime. Many of Britain's supplies for Egypt go around Africa. Most U. S. visitors to Berlin nowadays go by way of Japan, Manchukuo, Siberia, Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Short Way Around | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Egypt's foremost surgeon, Minister of Health Ali Ibrahim Pasha, hurried forward, shooed away nervous, crowding no tables, examined the prostrate body. He whispered a word to the King, into whose eyes tears sprang. Hassan Sabry Pasha's speech was indeed the shortest a Premier had ever delivered. He was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Death Shortens a Speech | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Speech from theThrone,"confided Egypt's Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha to his friends one day last week, "will be the shortest ever made by an Egyptian Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Death Shortens a Speech | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...even 30 days in training camps was taking so many skilled workers out of factories as to hamper the main Dominion war effort: industrial production. Originally Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, when the draft bill was being prepared, asked Canadian Army bigwigs what was the very shortest possible training period for draftees which would make any sense at all from a military point of view. He was answered: two months. The 30-day camping period, a political compromise, was an expression of the fact that Canada, at war for over a year, was still unwilling to face conscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: 30,000 Get 30 Days | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Married. Alec Andrews Templeton, 30, blind, British-born pianist and deft musical parodist (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera}; and onetime Singer Juliette Vaiani, 39; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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