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General Hsueh Yo had been in tight spots. He had led the famous ist Division under Chiang Kai-shek in the northern march that unified China in the '20s. They had won against all the world's opposition, in the teeth of all the warlords. This week he is in a tight spot again, fighting again to hold his capital, to keep its rice for China...
...thus no accident that Germany's West Front should have been named the Siegfried Line; that the new regimes of force should have taken the title of social ist; or that the most powerful myth of today should be a mixture of biological, economic and cultural dogmas. The 20th Century . . . belongs to Darwin, Marx and Wagner. ... So true is this that the ordinary educated man of today sees no third choice between the 'scientific ideas' of the late 19th Century and the 'obscurantism and superstition of the Middle Ages...
...TIME'S Jan. 13 story cited rumors that Count Luckner, famed sea raider of World War I, was raiding again in the Pacific, not in his yacht Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") but in a 7,100-ton armed merchantman. Now 56-according to Wer Ist's, the German Who's Wh -the Count likes to tell people he is 72, then show he is still in the prime by tearing telephone books...
Last week the No. 1 British trade union ist, Minister of Labor Ernest ("Big Ernie") Bevin, ordered all British males aged 41 or 42 and not already actively defending their country to register on April 5 for labor service (others up to 45 will register later). On April 19 British females aged 20 (girls of 21 will also follow) must do the same. To speed up the process of getting more people to work in munitions factories, shipyards, mines and upon repair of bombed areas, Laborite Bevin urged that 100,000 young women volunteer at once...
...Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis it looked as if the London-Washington Axis were dealing from the bottom of the deck. An angry cry went up. The Italian radio sneered that President Roosevelt had "lowered himself" by going to meet an Ambassador. In Popolo d'ltalia Journal ist Luigi Barzini assured his countrymen that "in the crucial period of the war-not too remote-Great Britain will have received only a few thousand planes" from...