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...Pearl River estuary, and the oldtime speculator who ran the blockades with mixed cargoes has disappeared. The Communists ask for and get only strategic materials. Not satisfied with waterfront facilities at Macao, they have set up their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen. Through Lap Sap Mei now travels about one-third of all shipping...
...only vernacular piece in the collection is an anonymous Italian laude, O Maria, Diam Stella, a work more notable for its reverent dignity than for any intrinsic musical merit. After a rather sluggish rendition of Lassus' Tibi Laus, Tibi Gloria comes victoria's beautiful Miserere Mei. The Glee club, showing full comprehension of the text, sings expressively, but Woodworth never permits the performance to become over-emotional. The perfect enunciation and balance of the group illuminate each word...
...unassuming candidate for China's 1946 hit parade was a bouncy little item called Mei Kuei, meaning "a rose." It was recorded in a thin, reedy soprano by a Chinese cabaret songstress named Hue Lee, enjoyed a modest popularity. By last week Mei Kuei's old Chinese friends would have scarcely recognized it. The Chinese lyrics had been uprooted; the new ones told the touching story of a Tommy's farewell to his Malayan sweetheart. As Rose, Rose, I Love You, the song stood No. 2 on Britain's hit parade...
...have "an antipathy to the U.S.," I am sure [he gave no] such impression two months ago. He discussed U.S. aid objectively, as the way to prevent World War III ... If those around him are anti-American, we have only ourselves to blame. In 1927, when General Chiang married Mei-ling Soong, he wanted very much to visit the U.S.A. and Europe. Trouble with his Communists, which . . . has continued to this day, kept him from making that trip. We are just beginning to learn in this country what he has been up against for more than 20 years...
...ever since Insurance-Man C. V. (Neil) Starr bought two struggling sheets and merged them, the Evening Post and Mercury had been a lively landmark of the foreign community (at its peak, the Post sold 15,000 copies of its English edition, 200,000 of its Chinese edition Ta Mei Wan Pao). As early as 1932 Editor Gould warned against Japanese aggression and, when a made-in-Japan puppet Chinese regime took over Shanghai, the Post was bombed and ten Chinese staffers were assassinated; Editor