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...Late. Telling testimony came from Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his visit to China last summer is still under lock & key at the State Department. Two years ago, said Wedemeyer, economic help might have been enough for China. "Today, it's too late. ... I wouldn't send $200 million to China unless I sent military aid to protect it. ... We must think in terms of blood as well as treasure. ... If we don't take appropriate steps, we are going to pay in blood. I don't think dollars alone will stop...
...trip to Europe. In New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt (shown as a pipe smoker on TIME'S 13th cover) had returned from convalescence to take up a fruitless job as head of the American Construction Council. In Moscow, Joseph Stalin† was quietly getting his hammer lock on the Communist Party. In Ahmadabad, Gandhi, jailed, was finding words which were to become truth to scores of millions...
...costumed duel-to-the-death in which "the two antagonists lock wrists . . . their sweat-drenched faces only an inch apart . . . and swap talk: 'Norman dog! Anglo-Saxon lilies will grow over thy bones ere yon sun sets...
...Lettres de cachet were one of the causes of the Revolution. Under them a husband could lock up his wife, a father his son, or the state could exile or imprison a dissenter, without judicial processes. Theoretically, the king signed each order. Actually, they were filled out, with the space for the name left blank, and clerks could issue them when needed, confining an enemy indefinitely. An estimated 150,000 lettres de cachet were issued during the reign of Louis...
Anachronism. In Hunnebostrand, Sweden, after a little reflection on the total lack of local crime, the town fathers auctioned off the jail's equipment-lock, stock and blankets...