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Last year, after capturing the Red capi tal of Yenan, Hu must have felt that his job was done. He got married. But last March Hu had fresh cause to thump and howl : wily Communist General Peng Teh-huai had sprung an ambush at Ichuan, killed and captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never...
...suppressed amusement the white-suited delegates of 20 American Republics last week solemnly gave to blue-jacketed U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull the honor of being the first to sign the Act they had adopted at Havana. Mr. Hull scrawled his name and hustled out of the chalk-white Capi-tolio, while his confreres leisurely went about the business of winding up the Americas' second conference of foreign ministers. The honor paid to the U. S. Secretary of State, who had drawn last place for precedence at the Conference, was not accorded because the Act of Havana...
Principal action taken by the Bank of France last week was to boost the rediscount rate from 5% to 6%, the normal central banking method of inducing capi tal to remain in a country. But the flight from the franc continued...
Reason: identical. The capitalist owners, Signore Luigi Capi and Signore Grazio Capograsso, have not been fighting the "Battle of the Grain" as ordered by Black Shirt Dictator Benito Mussolini (TIME...
...Baton Rouge. The first week's session of the American Institute of Co operation, meeting at the Louisiana capi tal, produced a super-cooperative organization?The National Chamber of Agricultural Cooperatives. Its purpose: To join together all farm cooperatives. Its new president : Christopher Otto Moser of Dallas, head of American Cotton Growers Exchange...