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Civilians Up! The military triumvirate which has administered Ecuador since last July, announced last week that the government has been returned to civilian hands. Meagre cables carried no details.
Guam, ceded to the U. S. by Spain, is 5.000 miles from San Francisco, 1,500 from Manila. Also ruled by the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain Henry B. Price, U.S.N. Cables and radio stations make Guam internationally important.
Gradually authority asserted itself. Gradually, the General's personal likeableness was felt. Politicians Quezon and Osmena, furious because of the diminished power of their rhetoric, could not prevent it. So they began to flood the cables with anti-Wood gossip. They made local scenes which in far off Washington looked...
For some months John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U.S. Minister to China at Peking, has been consistently chagrined to discover that the Chinese political and military situation is in such a state of perpetual flux that whatever news he cables to Washington stands about one chance in ten of being pertinent...
The cables continued to reek with "copy" concerning Mme. Zizi Lambrino, the former morganatic wife of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania, who is suing him for 10 million francs at Paris (TIME, March 15) on the ground that she is still his wife, although he is officially the...