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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Theosophists. They declared that the 12-year-old moppet was "the Vehicle of the new World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya," whose last incarnation on earth was Jesus Christ. Calmly accepting this announcement, Krishnamurti grew up under their tutelage, became head of their Order of the Star in the East. In 1929, however, he disappointed his disciples by renouncing the Godship they had imposed upon him. Still a practicing Theosophist seer who affects soft, open-collared shirts and flannel slacks, Krishnamurti, now nearing 40, has not lost his persuasive ways. Author Landau says he felt such personal pleasure at meeting...
Oriental self-sacrifice played to the tune of splitting shells and roaring torpedoes, is the essence of "Thunder in the East", a picture based on Claude Farere's "The Battle" and set in the Russo-Japanese War. Merle Oberon achieves a slightly more Levantine slant to her eyebrows than Charles Boyer, but both of them succeed eminently in depicting the grim subservience to authority husband for one and country for the other that is the essence of this film. Their performances in this production, we are told, gave them their introduction to Hollywood...
...units and have just destroyed the open city of Harar. These bombing 'outrages' might conceivably be due to mistakes, but the horrible and shameless use of gas must have been organized and authorized. . . Gas is not a product we are likely to find on the coast of East Africa. It must have been manufactured for the deliberate purpose of bombing unprotected bodies of the Ethiopian population...
Last week few people east of the Continental Divide knew or cared that such a trip was about to take place, but on the Pacific Coast it was an object of interest. Reason for the free ride was that last summer Congress passed and President Roosevelt signed a bill for the Treasury to pay the transportation back to his native land of any Filipino who would accept. A backer of this law was Pacific Coast Labor, which saw in the creation of the Philippine Commonwealth a good excuse for inviting Filipino workers to go home rather than stay...
...most urgent tasks today are to rescue the Far East from the dangers of Communism and to relieve the feeling of constriction the Japanese are suffering in their economic life...