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Hunger & Relief. There was still no comprehensive picture of what Japanese rule had done to China's cities and countryside. Canton was all but moribund. Shanghai's masses were desperately hungry; 1,500,000 of her workers were jobless, and 20,000 prostitutes prowled her streets. But Shanghai...
During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks had no time for the Mongolian steppe lands. But in 1921 a Tsarist refugee, the fantastic "Bloody Baron" Michael von Ungern-Sternberg, made Outer Mongolia's metropolis, Urga (pop: 50,000), a base for operations against Russia. So the Bolsheviks liquidated him and...
Across the Khalka River armed Russia and armed Japan glared in hatred, waiting for the day when one would push the other from the steppes of central Asia and win the key region for dominating northern China. Meanwhile the Japanese installed Prince Teh in an old, tile-roofed, Mongol palace...
Father in Cincinnati. Cincinnati is one of the U.S. cities which has reported no interest in Trollope-perhaps because Trollope's parents are part & parcel of Cincinnati history. To the young Midwest metropolis, in 1828, went eccentric Frances Trollope who was later followed by her equally eccentric lawyer husband...
If delegates missed the import of the city's past, they would hardly miss the significance of San Francisco in 1945-metropolis, arsenal, base of vast Pacific air and sea communications. To men from weary countries the men & women on the quaint cable cars, on the city's...