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...Chiang's village birthplace a joint moral and political leadership of China, seemingly with the intention that Chinese capitalists in the coastal cities and the more or less bureaucratic statesmen of the Government at Nanking should awaken to the "advantages" of teaming up with the potent Chinese bandit Communist armies for war with Japan...
...international language, Director Fritz Lang, an Austrian, gets an extraordinary authenticity of color into his quick episodic treatment of the life and love of Eddie Taylor. Many scenes, momentary on the screen, are hard to forget: the assault of a bank truck on a rainy day by a bandit with tear-gas bombs; the warped, animal hatred of the crowd watching Eddie being taken from the courtroom; the bullfrogs croaking in the pond outside the little inn from which, upon his wedding night, he is tossed out for being an ex-convict; a demonstration of the "electric eye" which detects...
...moon's disk one night last week flitted a ruddy shadow, tilted about eight degrees to the east. It was an appulse of the moon, visible in most of North America and parts of Europe. Associated Press's Science Editor Howard Blakeslee compared the sight to "a bandit with a dark cap drawn down over his forehead...
When Sportsmen Harkness & Griswold reached China early last year, the Government refused them permission to enter the giant panda's wild, bandit-infested habitat. Alone, Harkness boarded a Shanghai train at Nanking, vanished. Fortnight later, a U. S. Marshal found him in a Shanghai hotel, registered under an assumed name...
Next the Nanking Government dispatched formal notes to all States having relations with China. These were told that the immediate withdrawal of all their nationals from the provinces of Suiyuan, Ningsia and Chinghai is "necessitated by bandit suppression operations." This was another owlish Chinese joke, designating as mere "bandits" the Manchukuoan and Mongol soldier puppets of Japan...