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When opponents of the bill halfheartedly asserted that it was impossible to remove three or four million people from a large city without causing a panic, a Hoare supporter croaked: "It is easier to do it before they are stretcher cases than afterward." Without a single dissenting voice the bill was passed...
Just at the corner of Nanking Road, not one block from the Wing On department store, accidentally demolished by Chinese air bombs last August, the inevitable grenade was thrown. "I saw a figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought...
...platform to greet the French Foreign Minister. Baron von Neurath called out in everyone's hearing an expression of his pleasure that the Paris Exposition this year brought 100,000 German visitors to France, then climbed aboard the train for a conference which smiling M. Delbos said afterward had unfortunately been all too short. Such goings on and such words would have seemed incredible a few months or weeks ago. They showed that France may be slipping into a habit (acquired in London at the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain) of not only cooperating with Britain...
...Fortnight ago Chinese dignitaries appealed to foreigners to urge their governments to ask the Japanese to "spare highly cultured Soochow the horrors of bombing"-not that these Chinese doubted it could and would be defended. One day last week Japanese dropped some 700 bombs upon Soochow and not long afterward the official Japanese military spokesman at Shanghai gave out the following details, which Chinese officials did not deny...
Bill Bingham and Dick Harlow and the Harvard ideal of teams composed of men who are primarily students and athletes afterward have received their share of fully merited praise from a wildly happy college. The Harvard system of subordinating athletics has been fully vindicated. But in all the post-game delirium there is one group whose part in the great victory is, because of its obvious magnitude, apt to be overlooked...