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...rains fell all along the French front, the forces of le Maréchal Pétain took up impregnable positions fanning out toward the Mediterranean from Kifane to a distance of some 20 miles. At the extreme northeast tip of the fan, French troops were reported to be in contact near Syan with a Spanish force (see SPAIN) which had advanced thither from Ajdir...
...least notable item in this theorv is the mention of Wu Pei-fu, for IHt.U or nothing has been heard of him in mf»"<-moons. Yet there was a time when mar-expected that he would succeed wh<"- Yuan-Shi Kai failed-unify China h. military force and constitutional principles...
WHAT'S O' CLOCK-Amy Lowell- Houghton Mifflin ($2.25). These are the last poems that a very sensitive and intelligent lady wrote, most of them while she sat in her garden or study between arduous hours compiling a ponderous life of Poet John Keats (TIME, Mar. 2). As she was alone most of the time, her poems usually drifted like brilliant toy balloons, or crackled like showering sparks, out of her pure ego. Three hours she spent once, imagining, chaffing, quizzing, loving three "sister poets"-Sappho, "Ba" Browning, Emily Dickinson. When the purple grackles spent...
Official Cognizance. Hearing these murmurs, Secretary Kellogg took heed. He well remembered the storm that broke when Count Karolyi was admitted to this country to visit his sick Countess but forbidden political utterances (TIME, Mar. 2). He considered what might be done in the case of this Parsee with the unpronounceable name, Shapurji Saklatvala. Secretary Hughes had had his Karolyi, but Secretary Kellogg did not want a Saklatvala for a Karolyi...
France had been intending to convene her Parliament on Oct. 6. It was hoped that before Oct. 6: 1) M. Briand could negotiate the Security Pact; 2) M. Caillaux might properly negotiate a debt settlement with the U. S.; 3) Maréchal Petain would plant a decisive blow in Abd-el-Krim's midRiff. Now France is less sanguine of the immediate success of her three champions. The Government has postponed the opening of Parliament until...