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...British met almost no resistance at Harar itself. This column's mission-breaking the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad-was accomplished at week's end when the British announced they had occupied Dire Dawa, the nearest station to Harar on the railway, and that the Italians had withdrawn westward toward the capital. Main reason given by the Italians for this withdrawal was again British air activity. All week long and all along the railroad, the British bombed trains, supply depots, bridges, tracks. With their communications cut behind them, the Italians at Harar were forced to retire...
...part of the planet's basic air movement, which is from the equator toward the poles. On the equator itself are the doldrums, where hot air rising makes little or no breeze. North and south of the doldrums the upper air begins its poleward journey by flowing steadily westward. Then it slowly shifts to become a south wind, shifts again in the temperate zone to become the prevailing westerlies. Far from their equatorial source, winds are made unpredictable by local forces. But the trades, neglected by the Age of Steam, are still blowing their ancient course. Passenger Willkie...
...country today, as represented by the vocal minority, is a spirit of internationalism. . . . They are promoting every cause that has no more connection with the future of America than the condition of the Martians on the planets beyond an astronomer's ken. . . . The continent of Europe is finished-westward will the course of empire make its way. All the efforts that we make to re-establish a past condition in continental Europe will be falsified under the very hydraulic law of history. Europe is finished-every historian knows that in his heart." Same day that Bishop...
Western Union (20th Century-Fox) is another episode in Hollywood's saga of U. S. industrial evolution. Like Wells Fargo and Union Pacific, Western Union deals with the westward march of pioneer communications. More Western than Union, it touches lightly on the telegraph, rides away full-gallop into a rousing tale of Indians, cattle rustlers, bad men battling on the prairie...
After dark, the three guards in the car relaxed. Squadron Leader von Werra opened a window, jumped out, struck westward through the woods to a highway. His facile French got him a ride from a French-Canadian who could not see the German tunic under his passenger's civilian greatcoat. Soon Franz von Werra was in Ottawa. There he begged a road map from a filling station, hitched a ride to somnolent Prescott. All that lay between him and freedom was the broad St. Lawrence. But at that point the river was not frozen over. After dark Werra stole...