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...best assurance that his work would not be undone. Generalissimo Chiang spoke for his nation when he said last week: "Our confidence in him is unbounded." For George Marshall viewed China, the U.S. and the world much as they were viewed nearly 100 years ago by his distant kinsman, Humphrey Marshall, U.S. Commissioner to the Celestial Empire in 1853-54. Wrote Cousin Humphrey...
Died. Count Leo Tolstoy, 76, son of the world-famed Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) and distant kinsman of the late, wealthy, best-selling novelist Alexey Tolstoy (Peter the Great), expatriate since his banishment in 1918 because of anti-Bolshevik editorials in his newspaper Vestocha, sculptor and writer, frequent U.S. visitor and lecturer; an Hälsingborg, Sweden...
...Bear the Unbearable." Two days later the Emperor's kinsman and Prime Minister, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, spoke to the Diet. His flat face was inscrutable, his soldier's hands rigidly at attention. The legislators listened impassively (a few dozed), applauded and approved with the discipline of marionettes. But there was little to cheer in the Premier's words...
...Emperor summoned his kinsman, pug-chinned Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, 57, to form a new Government. The appointment was doubly notable: it was made without the customary consultation between throne and elder statesmen; it was the first time ever that a member of the royal house had become Premier of Japan...
Soldier v. Non-Resister. Lord Wavell was the latest scion of a long line of soldiers. The name Wavell (spelled in 60 different ways) runs like a minor but recurring theme through a thousand years of British history. It begins with William de Vauville, a Norman kinsman of the Baron de Briquebec, who came to England with William the Conqueror. A De Vauville fought in the Crusades over the same Near East deserts where his famed descendant was to fight five centuries later. Three Wavells (the first in 1478) were Mayors of Winchester. Of a 17th Century Richard Wavell, preacher...