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When he got to the Orient, Yardley happily found nothing inscrutable about the old China poker hands. Around the table in the Chungking Hostel, he recalls, there were such worldly adversaries as Herr Neilson, the Generalissimo's antiaircraft adviser, "a good-natured writer from TIME Magazine" named Teddy White, and Mickey, a plump, cigar-smoking woman who turned out to be Writer Emily Hahn, in China to do the history of the three Soong sisters. The place was full of poker patsies, and Yardley put to profitable use the carefully calculated rules that make his book a primer...
...neither be removed nor re-elected by voters. Accountable mainly to themselves, awaiting the "return to the mainland" that does not come, they have little to do; the provincial government of Formosa deals with most day-to-day governing. They have little voice; the 15-man Standing Committee of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang Party decides government policies without consulting them. Result: lawmakers have tended increasingly to bolt party discipline, attack Chiang's ministers...
...week's end cautious Generalissimo Franco overruled army demands for an all-out counterattack in Africa, and his Rabat embassy announced that Spain was ready for "friendly talks" about Ifni's future. To make his friendly gesture more emphatic, he dispatched two cruisers and four destroyers to hover off the Moroccan city of Agadir, just north of Ifni...
...will again be free. Each year on "Double Tenth" (the tenth day of the tenth month) they renew that faith in celebrating the anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the founding of the Chinese Republic by Dr. Sun Yatsen. Last week, on a bright, breezy day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek watched his U.S.-equipped Nationalist army roll by in an impressive display of motorized armor. Overhead Chinese and U.S. jets left vapor trails above the fleecy clouds...
Even with the 40% increase in pay ordered by the government last year, the workers of Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's Spain remained the most meanly paid in Western Europe (average: $1.60 a day). When price rises quickly wiped out those meager gains, Franco's regime prepared for new labor trouble this fall, at the end of vacation season. Snapped Lieut. General Alonso Vega, boss of all Spanish police: "The sooner the better." Last week the trouble came, and Dictator Franco and his police were ready for it. In the ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene...