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Five months ago Brazil's sharp-eyed little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas started clipping the wings of the German Condor airline. First snip came in June when he refused a petition of the Rio-São Paulo branch to keep two of its Nazi pilots on the payroll. Last month he cut a little closer, canceled a contract for service be tween Belem (formerly Pará), at the mouth of the Amazon, and the French Guiana frontier. Three weeks ago he brought out his shears again, ousted all foreign pilots, whether naturalized or not, from Brazilian airlines...
...junior in Rutgers University, went to Markert's office with his father. Mr. Freiwald waited while the two osteopaths placed Walter on an operating table. Markert, assuming that he was within the law by acting as Maxfield's assistant, gave the boy ether. Maxfield then began to snip out the right tonsil, he said...
...Office demanded maintenance of the status quo in French Indo-China-i.e., no one should take it but Japan, not even Japan's friends Germany and Italy. Louder & louder grew the cry among extreme nationalists in Tokyo that Japan should occupy and "protect" the territory, and thus snip both outside intervention and the China supply line...
...would at one stroke accomplish Japan's New Order. Instead of cowering before the threat of an oil embargo, she could herself threaten a rubber and tin embargo against the U. S. She would possess islands from which she could conveniently attack Singapore. She would be able to snip off Hong Kong, Indo-China, the Philippines from the Western World...
When Wilfrid Fleisher began talking about the future, the censors pricked up their ears: "There has been no speculation in the press so far," he said, "regarding the personnel of a new Cabinet, but the name of Prince Fumimaro Konoye-" Snip! The conversation was cut off. But, as usual, Wilfrid Fleisher's dope...