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Albert Einstein, for his scientific skepticism in scoffing at the notion that eggs stand on end in China on the first day of the Chinese spring (TIME, Feb. 12) was taken to task by Chen Kuo-fu, head of China's radio network, who told Einstein off as follows: the first day of spring in China begins when the surface of the sun toward the earth is largest, thus attracting the eggs to stand on end. Chen Kuo-fu added that he believed the sun was not round, asked Einstein to "look into the matter...
...other high posts were reshuffled: dapper, German-trained Chu Chia-hua became Minister of Education, replacing Kuomintang bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...
...denied one rumor-that he would resign. Delegates had tough policy matters to settle, too. Should UNRRA help ex-enemy Italy? If so, would Germany be eligible? And Japan? It would take a majority vote to effectuate such aid. One delegate was on record. China's Tsiang Ting-fu favored making "the necessities of life available to the Japanese after...
...many a U.S. citizen has wondered why the fleet was bottled up, in port, on Dec. 7, an easy target for the Jap bombers. Last week a yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu-the Japanese, said he, had "made a patsy" out of the State Department. Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the story went, had complained to Cordell Hull that the far-ranging activity of the U.S. Navy gave Japanese militarists a chance to block his efforts at preserving peace. As a result...
...Hollywood's curious conventions, the Japanese in this film are, as usual, played by Chinese while the Chinese are played by the Caucasians with their eyes painfully plastered in an Oriental oblique. The result suggests Dr. Fu Manchu and an epidemic of pinkeye...