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...best of Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number on the Nation, a mere hotheaded warhorse. They were proud of the difference...
Meanwhile, Red Army tanks and planes were a mere 20 miles from Teheran, at Karaj. Armored columns were said to be moving west by night towards Lake Urmia, near the Turkish and Iraq frontiers. But the British (who garrison Iraq) and the Turks (who are fully mobilized) stayed cannily silent. Both were old hands at playing the nerves game...
...formal surrender of the Japanese garrison on Bali last week was one of those ceremonies the British always carry off so well...
This week Russia was still picking through the bare bones for industrial loot. When Red Army men carted off machinery from the Mukden ice plant, the city's new Chinese mayor, Tung Wen-chi, protested to the Russian garrison commander, Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich. A man of remarkable statements (see INTERNATIONAL), the Soviet officer blandly replied: "The Red Army is very powerful. I cannot stop them...
...Spokesmen. The Navy proposes to garrison its outposts with 51,500 men and 4,500 officers-half the Navy's entire personnel...