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Professor Chi-yun Chang asserted in his lecture last night at the Institute of Geographical Exploration that "China is trying now to solve the essential enigma of new democracies--successful combination of freedom and order, liberty and discipline." Chang, head of the Department of History and Geography at the National Chekiang University and member of the People's Political Council of China, declared that his country's citizens have made great strides during the war in educating themselves for democracy...
...muddled months of U.S. "expediency" toward France, he reported directly to the White House-whence the soothing policy was laid down. He was never in a policy-making position, but he occupied a spot where his opinions carried weight. In his new job, as in the old one, the enigma of Bob Murphy remained a closely guarded State Department secret...
Trial Balance. If Badoglio's cobelligerent Italy was a military plus and an economic minus, politically it was a plain enigma. In declaring war against Germany, Badoglio said that representatives of all political parties will be asked to participate in the Government. But liberal Count Carlo Sforza, on the eve of entering Italy, was still saying he could not enter a Cabinet headed by Badoglio...
...conversion of Sir Oliver Lodge also moved Sir Max Beerbohm to draw one of his funniest imaginary confrontations, in which Convert Lodge and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, a British skeptic about spiritualism, look at each other and wonder at an ectoplasmic enigma...
Always Polite. For the wary Swedes that enigma is only one of many. They are fed up with being lonely neutrals and too smart to do anything about it. But something is going to break loose in Europe before long. Until then the Swedes can keep on saying: "If St. Paul and Satan both appeared simultaneously in Stockholm, they would be treated with equal politeness...