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Show BRIEFS: SILENCE: December 7, 1942, first anniversary of Pearl Harbor, will come and go without any special spe-cial message from President Roosevelt. Roose-velt. A White House announcement said that the President will not deliver de-liver an address on that day, "nor take official notice of that anniversary." anni-versary." Rather it is felt that December De-cember 7 .should be observed "as a day of silence in remembrance of a great infamy." BASES: President Arroyo Del Rio of Ecuador revealed that his country was the first in South America Amer-ica to give military bases to the United States on that continent. DUKES: As a projected Austrian volunteer unit cf the U. S. army began its development three of the royal archdukes were reported to have offered their services. They are brothers of Archduke Otto, pretender pre-tender to the throne, who is president presi-dent of a military committee organizing or-ganizing the unit. |