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Some months ago the U. S. lent $25,000,000 to the Chinese Universal Trading Corp. to finance Chinese purchases in the U. S. Shortly afterward, Great Britain lent $25,000,000 to the Chinese to stabilize the Chinese dollar. With the Chinese treasury thus bolstered, the Japanese yen, whose value has been depreciated in the occupied areas for some time, actually sank below the value of the Chinese dollar. Moreover, the Japanese cannot get needed foreign exchange from China with which to buy planes, oil and scrap iron so long as deals on China's coastal soil...
...tailored splendor, it tries to carry on the tradition. But the "Versailles gap" (1919-34), a period in which conscription was prohibited, has left the Germans weak in well-trained reserves, short on crack lieutenants and captains. The gap was not complete, however, because some German officer material was lent to train the Russian, Chinese, Bolivian armies. Young officers are being rushed through training schools, but no short course can make a well-grounded officer. Old Reichswehr sergeants, now lieutenants and captains, are good drill masters, but have more limitations than talents. By recently making officers of men from...
...travel in most directions without traveling through armies, or in northern France and Belgium through heaped wreckage and broken walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to starving too. But help came to him from U. S. and English expatriates. American Poet Robert McAlmon lent him money, Bookshop Owner Sylvia Beach began publishing Ulysses. Ezra. Pound, Idaho's great expatriate, introduced him to Harriet Weaver...
Point was lent to this suggestion when Senator Taft accused the President of "ballyhooing" the foreign situation to divert public attention from trouble at home (see p. 21). This charge was so serious that it may well boomerang and should war come in Europe, it would point to Franklin Roosevelt as a statesman-who-foresaw, might well improve his chances of a third term...
...Manhattan, Nurse Marian Cribbs was awakened by someone tweaking her big toe. Tweaker was a man who said he had come to rob her. Instead he kissed her foot, tried to kiss her. Resourceful Nurse Cribbs reminded him it was Lent, shooed him out, promised to meet him later. At the rendezvous he met police...