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...years a resident of California and a latter-day disciple of California's mystic Gerald Heard, has called his newest book The Perennial Philosophy (Harper; $3). Under 27 headings, Author Huxley has presented the principal tenets of mysticism in his own words, illustrating by quotations from Mystics Eckhart, Lao-Tzu, William Law, many another...
...defeat Japan, he said, the U.S. should land on China's coast-but only with a small force. What China mostly needs, he said, is supplies; lao ping, not the G.I., would shed his blood for the continent, and thus few U.S. divisions would be diverted from the Japanese mainland...
...weather last week came to the aid of Allied forces in southwestern China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
Letters to the Editor. China's press and leaders suddenly became articulate about the plight of patient lao ping. Said General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The military set-backs will do us more good than harm. The more defeats we suffer, the more daring is the press in expressing its opinions. Previously we knew little about the fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current...
...Philosophy. But all is not laughter with Elsa, who claims she is really two people. Her other self is intensely "interested in profound philosophy " and feels that through her column she can bring an understanding of authors like Rousseau, Freud, Lao-Tse, and Tolstoy to many people who might never otherwise get to know them. In the same way, she declares, her parties are really organized to bring intellects together in an informal atmosphere. She is proud of having invented such games as Treasure Hunt and Scavenger Hunt, because of their psychological importance. Not unmindful of science (she once devoted...