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...cast about for a hypothesis which would fit the situation, and one lay ready to hand. It might be untrue but it was logical that Premier Chiang should have decided to enlist in a Chinese war against Japan the aid of that same Soviet Government which enabled him to conquer China in the first place and which only last fortnight received the slap in Moscow's face of a Japanese-German accord against Communism (TIME, Dec. 7). No stranger things happen anywhere than among Chinese generals and there were a whole batch of them in Sian last week. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator Kidnapped | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...University Chess Team can conquer its most formidable opponents in the Boston Metropolitan Chess League, the Boston City Club, and the Bay State Club, it will be well on its way to the title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Substantial Lead in Boston League Held by Chess Club | 12/8/1936 | See Source »

...boned, slender-waisted Dictator Chiang is sometimes called "The Ningpo Napoleon," and his right to dictate to 450 million people is based on the thumping fact that as the leader of the "National People's Party" Revolutionary Army he set out from Canton in 1926 and proceeded to conquer all China. In this adventure the Soviet Government helped with money, munitions, propaganda spread ahead of General Chiang's soldiers by secret agents under Moscow's ace propagandist Michael Borodin, and finally by sending to act as Chiang's Chief-of-Staff the ablest Bolshevik strategist, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Cathedral, emerging adherents of Christus Rex jampacked the Cathedral Square. Suddenly a window flew open and Rexist Degrelle made what he called a "Proclamation." Unfurled were two huge Rexist flags showing "the Black Crown of Christ the King" on a red field. The crowd roared "Rex will conquer! Long live Degrelle!" At this Premier van Zeeland's cavalry charged out of side streets, slashing with their sabres in the reckless fashion of Romanov Cossacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Rexist Rashness | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Marta Abba chose the U. S. as one of the last theatrical worlds to conquer. Leaving the Milan Theatrical Academy in 1923, she was soon spotted by silver-whiskered Nobel Prizeman Luigi Pirandello, who gave her the lead in his Six Characters in Search of An Author. She has since done practically the whole library of the great theatrical metaphysician's plays, two of which are dedicated to her. In Europe and South America in the past decade Actress Abba's long, sensitive face, throaty voice and pleasantly awkward gestures have been seen in a repertoire ranging from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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