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...Prince Paul chief Regent and Dr. Radenko Stankovitch (a Serb) and Dr. Ivan Perovitch (a Croat) fellow Regents during Peter's minority. At that time Yugoslavia was still pretty much in the political orbit of War-victorious France. The shadow of a renascent, threatening Germany was beginning to fall over the Balkans, however, and neighboring Fascist Italy had never been too friendly with Yugoslavia. In fact, accomplices of the Croatian desperadoes who killed Alexander were subsequently harbored in Italy. And Yugoslavia drastically reduced her Italian trade when the League of Nations voted sanctions in the Ethiopian...
...deliberated carefully the policy for regulating relations with a rejuvenated China in accordance with the plan submitted by the Government and adopted the plan in its original form."The Plan, leaks soon revealed, is for the Japanese Government to assume that China "lost the war'' with the fall of Can ton and Hankow and that the time has now come to "organize and consolidate'' in China that peace which the Japanese choose to think they have won. Other events of the week in Japan indicated fur ther details of the policies deliberated in the middle...
American Landscape (by Elmer Rice; produced by The Playwrights' Company). In the fall of 1934, after two of his plays (Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds) had been panned, Elmer Rice, calling first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," savagely forswore the theatre. But when The Playwrights' Company was formed last spring, Rice quietly chucked away his vow. Last week his American Landscape followed the Company's Knickerbocker Holiday and Abe Lincoln in Illinois to Broadway...
...bodied Clark Wyly, 28, has as much claim as anyone to the title of "typical U. S. seaman." Texas-born, he. took to the Navy as soon as the law allowed. After a six-year hitch he signed as an able seaman on the Panama Pacific liner California. This fall the California and her sisterships Virginia and Pennsylvania became the Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina of the Maritime Commission's Good Neighbor Fleet (American Republics Line). At Rio de Janeiro on November 4, on the Uruguay's maiden voyage, a Brazilian longshoreman fell off a gangplank, caromed...
Voicing undergraduate resentment at this fall's "suicide schedule" of the Yale football team, the "Yale News" has been waging an editorial war for a modified program of grid encounters for future years...