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...slim little lady from Omsk reached up and pulled a string. Her tug released a flag (hammer-&-sickle rampant on field gules) which covered part of a tank. Written boldly on the tank's bare flank was the word STALIN...
Japan was taut last week with its longstanding Army-Navy tug of war and peace...
Silent partner in the smuggling up the south China coast out of Hong Kong last year was the Japanese Navy. For approximately 34,000 Hong Kong dollars a month (U.S. $8,500) Japanese Navy agents granted smugglers the right to sneak into China one tug with as many barges as it could tow up the coast. Military supplies were forbidden but gasoline was permitted. A Japanese agent accompanied the tug to give the O.K. to any inquisitive warship of the Imperial Navy...
Last week the two-faced Japanese Janus seemed to be going two ways at once. A tug of war was going on between the fire-eating, Axis-loving generals of the Japanese Army and the go-slow civil Government engaged desperately in a last-minute buttering...
...right to appoint Spanish bishops (see p. 65). With this feather in its beret, Spain's one party, the Falange Española Tradicionalista, which has fought to make the Spanish Catholic Church, not Roman, but Spanish, next day won an even greater victory: success in the long tug of war between Spain's politicians and soldiers...