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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose whereabouts is usually a military secret, last week was revealed to have moved to a new headquarters in southern Hunan Province, midway between fallen Hankow and Canton. With British munitions and supplies cut off by Canton's fall and the possibility that French Premier Daladier will heed Japan's demand to close the supply route to China from French Indo-China, the onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck...
...astonished that TIME [Oct. 10] should have fallen for an old and, I believe, authentic Toscanini story and attributed it to Koussevitzky in connection with whom it simply doesn't make sense...
...appropriate symbol for the investment banking business. Keynoted retiring President Frothingham: "Broadly speaking, there has for some time been no flow of new capital, the capital that employs men. From an average of $5,000,000,000 of new capital raised annually in 1924 to 1929, this has fallen to only $500,000,000, or to one-tenth...
Because history is at best violent, violence crowds his books. In Man's Hope, as in his previous work, he writes most intensely of those moments when hope has finally vanished from men's lives-when the revolution has failed or the plans fallen through, when escape has been frustrated, pardon refused, when even suicide has been prevented and nothing remains but the certainty of execution. The questions that haunt his novels like a strain of sombre music are these: What happens to men when they know they will die with no chance to struggle against their fate...
...Indo-China is famous for its immense, moldering, bat-infested ruins of Khmer civilization, of which Angkor Wat is the best known. Among economists, Indo-China is equally famous as one of the world's worst-run colonies. For a year young Malraux dug through ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status for Indo-China...