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Conservative M.P. Fitzroy (Escape to Adventure) MacLean asked the government about the "closing" of His Majesty's consulate at Tihwa, capital of Sinkiang, where China's far west meets Russia and India. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies read from a report from H.M.'s consul general at Tihwa, George Fox Holmes...
Explained Minister Davies to M.P. MacLean: "Alleged charges of espionage . . . were quite incorrect and unjustified, and we are protesting to Peking against the expulsion...
...pinned Bass with a reverse Nelson and body press at 4:32; 130--Smith (H) pinned Dolt with a double arm lock and body press at 4:47; 137--MacLean (B) decisioned Iben, 8-2; 147--Adams (H) decisioned Seaver, 5-3; 157--Michael (B) decisioned Anderson, 6-0; 167--Eastham (B) pinned Hastie with a Princeton arm bar at 4:08; 177--Rowe (B) decisioned Keith, 7-0; unlimited (B) decisioned Keith, 7-0; unlimited--Chernak (B) decisioned Heidtmann...
...center of The Loved and Envied shines Ruby Maclean, a 53-year-old beauty of angelic character, much too good for the decadent and useless idlers who surround her. Sympathetically and quietly, she administers the last rites to a dying generation. One friend, a rich old Italian duke who has made the frightful error of marrying his cook, dies with Lady Maclean bending tenderly over his deathbed. Another, a dried-out, egotistical playwright, gets Ruby to beg his 30-years-estranged wife for a reconciliation. And Good Samaritan Ruby is there with shelter when the withered mistress of a septuagenarian...
...Combat Command, General Mark Clark's spirited Calculated Risk, and General Bob Eichelberger's straightforward story of the Eighth Army in the Pacific, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. Several of the personal-adventure books made excellent reading. Best of the lot was British Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's Escape to Adventure, a lusty, well-written narrative of daring and luck in carrying out cloak & dagger missions in Russia, Persia and Yugoslavia. Eric Williams' The Wooden Horse and Paul Brickhill's The Great Escape were both rattling good stories of daring British breaks from the same German...