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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safely in Stockholm, Earl Browder's frozen tongue thawed. To Scandinavian correspondents he confided that he was en route to Moscow to "study political life...
Like the best of friends, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Mme. Chou En-lai-wife of Communist China's No. 1 negotiator-joined last week at Chungking's windy Paishihyi airfield to greet General George C. Marshall and his handsome, hazel-eyed wife, Katherine. Soldier-Diplomat Marshall, after a nightlong Peiping study of Manchuria's erupting war, was less impressed by tea-drinking at the top levels than by bullets in the boondocks...
...blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already in the field...
Most Egyptians looked as if they were smelling something. They were-the West Wind. One day this week the 17,000,000-odd dwellers along the Nile arose at dawn, took several deep breaths, and went picnicking. It was the Shamm en-Nesim, the one common holiday for all Egyptians-Moslem, Christian and Jew. Once a Coptic feast day, the Shamm en-Nesim means literally "the smell of the West Wind." Irreverent Americans in Cairo call it "sniff-the-breeze day." Egyptians believe that a lungful of the departing spring air will ward off summer languor-provided the sniffer manages...
Built by ex-Dictator General Gerardo Machado, Cuba's Huey Long, the $20 million Capitolio has been called a monument to graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...