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...main part of the island (area about 255 sq. mi.) is made up of a mountainous east end covered with perennially green forest and a drier west end covered with cattle ranches, thousands of acres of pineapples, and the Hoolehua-Palaau and Kalanianaole homesteads and house lots of the Hawaiian Homes Commission-totaling some 7,500 acres-on which that Commission is successfully rehabilitating some 1,250 Hawaiian farmers and their families. There are now about 410 "patients" at the settlement and a population of near 10,000 on the main island...
...world as Japanese censors clamped down on cables and radio, the August Land of the Rising Sun or Dai Nippon (as Japanese poetically call their Empire) faced the World with a blank wall of sheer Mystery. In Washington the State Department, for all the erudition of its Far East Section, knew nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph Clark Grew as though he had been U. S. Ambassador to the Moon instead of Ambassador to Japan. The Department busied itself writing a note to express the grief of the Roosevelt Administration at the death of Premier...
Adolf Hitler in Germany is turning back the centuries toward blood, Wotan, race. Japan has never really turned her centuries forward to 1936. In Russia the worried Bolsheviks consider themselves likely objects of Japanese and German pincers closing upon Russia in simultaneous war from East and West (TIME. Feb. 24). The prostrate Chinese as they scanned the news from Tokyo this week remained particularly prostrate, a comfortable posture in which they await Japanese bankruptcy, Japanese proletarian revolution, Japanese defeat by Russia or the decay of Japanese from temperamental instability in a few hundred or thousand years...
...revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith in the truth and justice which must be if existence is to justify the struggle. His quest leads him to the tenement home of the Esdrases cowering beneath the symbolic shadow of the East Side New York skyline. The exotic beauty and youthful freshness of the young daughter, Miriamne, hypnotize him but he cannot give himself to love for the crushing burden of his disillusion and the gnawing vacuum of unfaith make life impossible. Track, the guilty gangster, has fallen into the customary, neurotic madness...
This week Cambridge has had another cold spell, and undergraduates have had some more skating on ice which was dangerously thin and appallingly rough, it is true but still ice. It is and that there is nothing nearer than the Ural Mountains to protect Cambridge from an East Wind. It has certainly seemed so to us walking to nine o'clock lectures these last few mornings...