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Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan's No. 1 Japanese Christian, has shown no itch to become a martyr by protesting his Govern ment's drive against Christianity in Japan (TIME, Sept. 9), but nonetheless news last week leaked from Japan: last month Japanese police pounced on Christian Kagawa, jailed him in the best Martin Niemöller style...
Appeasement? The Star-Times could not take this Blitzkrieg lying down. Next day, on page 1, the Star-Times struck back at Editor Coghlan. Calling the Post-Dispatch's piece a "fanatical diatribe, bred of mingled hate and fear," an effort "to win the Pulitzer Prize for Appease ment," the Star-Times bought the same space which the Post-Dispatch had taken in the New York Times and Washington Post to meet the attack...
Died. Jean Pierre Clément Marie, Due de Guise, 65, pretender to the French throne; in Larache, Spanish Morocco. In recent weeks many a Frenchman prophesied that 6 ft. 6 in. Jean III would succeed Petain as Chief of State, re-establish the monarchy...
...June 1939 ex-Sportsman Emanuel was flying to Nashville to visit his good friend Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. An hour late, his excuse was that he had spent the time searching for Fort Knox, hiding place of U. S. gold. Said Evans: "If the Govern ment has done so well in hiding its gold reserves, wouldn't it be a good idea to have airplane factories here?" Within a year Stinson had finished its new $2,000,000 Nashville plant...
...Oswald Spengler's theory of cultural cycles: that cultures, like individuals, pass through youth and maturity to old age and death. Cultures are born in the countryside among "a homogeneous people, living close to the soil, intensely religious. . . . There is a springtime feeling in the air . . . a mo ment of equipoise, a widespread flowering of the imagination. . . ." This moment in New England's culture Van Wyck Brooks fixed superbly in The Flowering of New England...