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...British military power in Afghanistan. Though the Afghans are delightedly proud of their independence, Western influence was still obviously on the increase. Last week beady-eyed riflemen from the Hindu Kush and turbaned tribesmen from the rocky plains along the Oxus crowded the theater to watch Maria Montez hiss and writhe through Cobra Woman. At the café, Afghans tapped pointed shoes in time to a blatting jazz band while they guzzled imposing quantities of ice cream and soda pop. Kabul's young beaux wore U.S. zoot suits (but their girls went veiled...
TIME'S office boy in Tokyo has a most engaging hiss and helps his bosses by translating newspaper items. In Asahi he found this prizewinning, sixth-grade theme...
Stettinius had decided to pass up the meeting of the preparatory commission's executive committee in London early next month, let someone else (probably a U.S. official already in London) represent him. The State Department's young Alger Hiss, able Secretary General of the San Francisco Conference, had declined the honor. So had Hiss's colleague, Leo Pasvolsky, who dotes on world affairs but dislikes travel. Stettinius expected to see the Charter through the Senate, stay in the U.S. until the full commission gathers in London in September...
...Secretary. In a class by himself was young, handsome Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department career man functioning as international secretary general. Relaxed and alert amid innumerable annoyances, Hiss was master of the incredibly complicated conference machinery. The wheels turned. A charter of world organization was taking shape...
...Francisco he and his secretariat of 300 (mostly Americans) will have the drudging, thankless clerk's job of copying, translating and publishing, running the thousands of paper-clip and pencil chores of an international meeting.* But Alger Hiss will be an important figure there. As Secretary-General, managing the agenda, he will have a lot to say behind the scenes about who gets the breaks...