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Hourglass. To the public observer, nothing startlingly new had developed. Premier Hideki To jo had made a violent and militant speech. Japanese troop transports, supposedly 70 strong, were supposedly still pouring fresh Japanese divisions into French Indo-China, for a possible thrust into Thailand and at the Burma Road, last artery of aid to China (see p. 27). But the Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo...
...midway of last week, things began to happen. It was plain that Japan's answer was being given, not in words in Washington, but in troop movements in the Far East. In Tokyo U.S. Ambassador Grew and Foreign Minister Togo were minding their diplomatic Ps & Qs, but Japanese troops were pouring into French Indo-China, threatening the Burma Road...
Scout. At Camp Robinson, Ark., Private Henry Placke was discovered to have joined a local Boy Scout troop, earned ten merit badges, qualified as an Eagle Scout. The Army discharged under-age Private Placke...
...Papen's interview was given to the correspondent of a Barcelona newspaper and was directed at Spain and Turkey. Germany, he said, regarded Turkey as a "bastion of peace" at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, as Spain was in the west. This week Berne reported German troop movements as far south as northern Spain...
Religion is recognized to be as dangerous as the questioning mind. In Russia, "the Orthodox Church, the Jewish synagogue, the Mohammedan mosque, the sectarian meetinghouse, have been involved in a common ruin." In Germany the extremist persecutors of the church troop back to the primeval forest to revive the fervors of Wotan worship and inspire pagan Siegfrieds to blitz the Fafnirs of "pluto-democracy." History, the record of the race, has been perverted to glorify the party, the leader, or serve the changeable politics of the total state...