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...Germany, the Work of the Twentieth Century) to prove that as early as 1911 Germany planned by 1950 to expand out of Europe and control the strategic points of the world, on land and sea, in Africa, Asia and the Americas, including all of South America south of the Tropic of Capricorn. The steps...
...sunny harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, General Brunot appeared on deck in the blue uniform of France. An antiquated French airplane droned over the ship and dipped its wings. At the dock Joan Fontaine saw General Brunot received by two khaki-clad companies of native troops. A band broke the tropic stillness with the Marseillaise and Joan Fontaine, thinking of the France that was, could not help crying...
...advocates of hemisphere solidarity who fear that the phrase may remain only a phrase. Mistrust of U.S. intentions, plus mistrust of U.S. ability to take effective military action in the far south, had hitherto hampered U.S. efforts to get military cooperation from those countries which lie south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Last fortnight Argentina's Foreign Minister Emeritus, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, urged a conference of Foreign Ministers of the 21 American republics to agree on plans for common defense (TIME, June 16). Last week such a conference seemed hardly an immediate necessity, so well had diplomacy worked behind...
...George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented more than 50 night clubs, in 1936 opened his own La Conga in Hollywood, followed it with several Beachcombers (in Manhattan, Providence, Boston, Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere and a tall, affirmative rum drink called the Zombie, shrewdly advertised: "Only Two Zombies to a Customer." Imperturbable showman Proser himself doesn't like rum, sticks to Scotch-&-water, once told a New Yorker reporter: "I got a lot of saloons. So what...
Wherever the guns, searchlights and watch posts are, there are soldiers burned hard and brown by the tropic sun, toughened by war with the jungle. For, when the Coast Artillery anti-aircraftmen in the Canal Zone were ordered into the hills last year, they had no place except jungle...