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Indonesian President Soekarno and Premier Sutan Sjahrir had a working agreement, but there was no love lost between them. While the moderate Premier carried on in Batavia, the less moderate President established headquarters in Jokyakarta, an inland city of Central Java known as the citadel of Indonesian independence...
...artist's son, Richardson started acting at 18, has seldom been without a part since. A hardworking, not very confident, thoroughly un-actory actor, he trudged slowly to the top, has also made a name for himself in British cinema (The Citadel, The Silver Fleet). In 1935 he made his only U.S. appearance, as Mercutio in the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet. In 1939 he joined the Fleet Air Arm, "flew all day and never thought of anything. I was deaf as an adder and had a wonderful appetite." Last year he and his fellow flyer, Olivier, were released...
While not yet proclaimed as the Red capital, Kalgan has become political and military citadel of the Chinese Communists. Its population (130,000) is almost three times as great as Yenan's. It is the Communists' first industrialized area (coal, iron, electric power, trucks, busses, cigarets, liquors, rubber goods, movies). It is also an arsenal. Left behind by the Japanese, after the Russians chased them out, and obligingly let the Chinese Communists in, was an enormous cache of weapons, including 60 tanks...
Unrest spread to Bombay, where students clashed with police. In Delhi, other students marched in protest before historic Mogul Red Fort, the ancient citadel where I.N.A. officers were standing trial for high treason against...
...better-known Director King Vidor (The Citadel, Northwest Passage...