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...Author Scott. Stalin and Molotov went personally to the Moscow station to say farewell to the Jap signers. This joy had been celebrated in too much vodka. "Stalin went up to the aged and diminutive Japanese Ambassador General, punched him rather hard on the shoulder with an 'ah ... ha'. . . . The Japanese Military Attache staggered up to the dapper and fastidious . . . Soviet Chief of Protocol and slapped him on the back. Matsuoka got the giggles and thought that the whole business was 'a genuine expression of Soviet friendship...
...Warriors. But where tiny Wong has kept charts, the burly chieftains of the famed Ma clan of Moslem warriors have kept their own armies in the Northwest. ("Of ten Moslems, nine are Ma; he who is not a Ma is then surely a Ha.") Most powerful and progressive of the clan is bushy-bearded General Ma Pufang, governor of the province of Chinghai, who has his own crack army of 50,000 men. The soldiers of his elder brother, General Ma Pu-ching, lord of the Kansu panhandle, completed the road to Russia in 1938, now are working on another...
...telephone numbers to forestall those lonely walks toward the Radcliffe quad. A pounding of footsteps interrupted his thoughts, and he stepped aside just in time to avoid the oncoming rush of Yardlings trying to beat the Mem Hall clock on their way to the meeting at New Lecture Hall. "Ha!" said Vag, and walked on down the path. "The little fat one on the end will never make it. Wait till we get him down on Soldiers Field; will he sweat! Push-ups. Ha!" With a grunt of superior satisfaction Vag felt himself settling back into the well known channels...
Some other recent books about Japan: RAMPARTS OF THE PACIFIC-Ha I left Abend-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Among this book's merits is the exactness of its figures on Japanese planes and plane production. Correspondent Abend's figures: Japan has more than 6,800 Army & Navy planes of all kinds; can produce no more than 300 planes a month; has never reached its yearly quota of 4,000, owing to shortages of alloy steels and machine tools...
...reader may thus trace from start to semi-finish a concentrated history of thumbnail memoranda on such subjects as God, boredom, marriage, work, Government, lawyers, shoals of others. He may learn the Golden Rule not only from the New Testament but from Confucius, Isocrates, Tobit, the Mahabharata, Hillel Ha-Babli; such shy self-revelations as the U.S. proverb: "Do others or they will do you," or Bernard Shaw's "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." The reader can observe that, whereas there is much...