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Died. Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, 74, veteran war correspondent, first U.S. political adviser to the Chinese Republic; in Seattle. He covered the Boer, Greco-Turkish, Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, World War I, the Boxer Rebellion, and part of the Sino-Japanese war, helped found The China Press, first U.S. paper in Shanghai, and Millard's Weekly Review in Shanghai. More honest than discreet, he was a frequent critic of U.S. policy in China, a more strenuous critic of Japanese policy. He was adviser to the Chinese at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations sessions from...
...would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand patterned after the old Boer republics'. His spokesmen claim that a victorious Hitler would entrust South Africa's government to the Herenigde, as the largest opposition party, but that if the United Nations win the war, Dr. Malan will fight for a republic as did Eamon de Valera in Ireland...
...their own sake. This is no conflict of armies. It is a battle of the birth rate!" The British press has noted that Britain now has a million and a half fewer babies and a million and a half more pet dogs than at the time of the Boer...
...Alamein sand dunes against the turquoise blue of the Mediterranean. Bronzed South Africans, stripped to the waist, were laying mines. One South African said he came from Pretoria. "I was there," said Churchill, "before you were born." (As a captured war correspondent of the London Morning Post in the Boer...
...good guess was that Nehru was at Ahmadnagar Fort, about 200 miles from Bombay. Here the Duke of Wellington once lunched on a grassy bank outside the fort's huge stone walls. Here the British once kept prisoners of the Boer war. Here, more recently, they have interned Italians captured in North Africa. Here Nehru, who worked for Loyalist Spain, who cried out against Munich, who was shocked by Hitler's Brown Shirts and twice snubbed invitations for an interview with Mussolini, could look out bitterly on monsoon skies. Nehru alone knew what thoughts were in his mind...