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...Correspondent Hallett Abend, in a wireless to the New York Times, paid unwilling tribute to Nipponese ingenuity. Said he: "Other semi-hostile Japanese naval actions have been openly conducted, without the slightest attempt at secrecy, always keeping 2,000 yards beyond the utmost range of American coast-defense batteries. The only disturbing feature of this phase of Japanese naval activity is how Japanese espionage agents have so accurately learned the extreme shooting range of the shore batteries...
...fall, since Ted is finding plenty to do for Dick Harlow across Soldiers Field road. But back from last year's first boat are stroke Bus Curwen, who is going to put in a couple of months' rowing before reporting to Hal Ulen for swimming, Dave Challinor at seven, Hallett Whitman six, Paul Pennoyer two, and Tom Boynton coxswain...
...biggest news last week of U.S. foreign relations was only an unconfirmed report. But it may well have been true, even if the U.S. had no part in it. From Washington the New York Times's Hallett Abend (who left Shanghai last October, after 14 years of service in the Far East) reported that Japanese Ambassador Nomura for nearly two months had been secretly trying to negotiate a U.S.Japanese neutrality and non-aggression pact with Secretary of State Hull...
Doon, an artist, is on trial for paper-knifing Edwin Hallett, his fellow house guest in the Van Eyck mansion in Manhattan, for love of Betty Van Eyck. It is a novelty item, presented as exact transcript of the trial itself, with sketches and photographs...
...Hallett Abend sees nothing funny in the Far East. His book covers more ground than Young's, is tense, timely, ominous. Abend never lived long in Japan. But as New York Times correspondent, he spent 14½ years covering China. More than once he was in hot water with Chiang Kai-shek's Government for his realistic reporting. When the Japanese got to China, Timesman Abend was in hot water all the time. Japan's Washington embassy had called Abend's dispatches "more fair and just than any news reports coming out of China." The Japanese...