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Britain, the strongest imperialist, had agreed to occupy southern Indo-China until the French could send forces to reclaim it. Moving into Saigon last month, Major General Douglas Gracey told the nationalist Viet Nam Party to suspend business, asked surrendering Japanese to help him keep the peace, let them keep their arms...
Between such outbreaks, French colonials raged that the British had botched the job. The Japanese, said Colonel H. J. Cedille, had armed the natives, incited them to riot and in some cases had joined them, posing as Annamites. General Gracey, dismayed by the whole business, talked tough to the Jap commander, Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, then flew down to Singapore with Colonel Cedille, senior French officer at Saigon, for a worried conference with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. But not until strong French forces arrived (under General Jacques Leclerc and Admiral Georges Thierry d'Ar-genlieu) would Terauchi...
...restatement of some of the ideas of Author Wylie's recent Generation of Vipers (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943), the framework is a ghost story. Ann Gracey, war widow agreed to rent her haunted house to John Galen, a biochemist, who had just learned that he was epileptic and in danger of madness. The developing love of these two, and the search for the "It" hidden in the house share interest with the author's views on religion, politics, art, and-above all-death. Provocative. General
...stroke, was obliged to leave for New York on account of the serious illness of his mother. It is doubtful whether he will be able to row at Cambridge on Friday. C. P. Cox '08, who has been rowing at number 6, was moved to stroke and L. R. Gracey '08, who has been at number 6 in the Junior 'Varsity, was moved into the university boat...
Mayor W. E. Russell will give the address to-day in Sanders Theatre, and Rev. Mr. Gracey, the oration. The exercises begin at 1 o'clock...