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...Pride of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are the series of great airports which his Nationalist Government is building across north and central China. A new one was nearing completion last week at Haichow, 250 miles north of Shanghai and at the very edge of the Japanese sphere of influence. Out to see the new airport went a trainload of tourists, among whom were 18 toothy, smiling little Japanese in civilian clothes. Sentries met them at the wire gates, guides were assigned to show them around. Hissing polite appreciation, the Japanese went everywhere, promptly unloaded a battery of cameras and began...
Last week Japan, in effect, repeated her maneuver of the Twenty-One Demands, and again every Japanese official had instructions to deny everything in sight. They first denied that Japan is pressing fresh demands upon China's wasp-waisted little Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. What actually happened last week, Japanese insisted, was that Generalissimo Chiang of his own volition invited to a secret conference at Nanking the Japanese Minister to China, suave, hearty Akira Ariyoshi and the Japanese Military Attache, exceedingly pugnacious Lieut. General Yoshimichi Suzuki...
...this secret conference began in Nanking, Shanghai was gloomier than at any time since the Twenty-One Demands. Last year Japan delivered a quiet, crushing blow to Chinese industry by forcing Generalissimo Chiang to lower tariffs on leading Japanese exports to China and up tariffs on leading imports from the U. S., Britain and Russia (TIME. Aug. 20). So slick and silent was that double-edged trade victory that it made scarcely any news in the Occident. Say glum Shanghai tycoons: "To China the new tariffs are as disastrous as the loss of three provinces." Last week they shivered...
Volumes III and IV of Douglas Freeman's four-decker definitive life of Robert E. Lee carry on from the aftermath of Chancellorsville and the death of "Stonewall" Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22) to the old age and final illness of the Confederate generalissimo. When the South collapsed at Appomattox, Lee was already suffering from a complicated heart and artery disorder that was never properly diagnosed. But he had a living to make, and he set out to make it. The Northern victory had wiped out his $20,500 in Confederate and Carolina bonds. His lot in Washington had been...
...generalissimo of Mexico's war on the Catholic Church, Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, was last week in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an operation on his gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...