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...accomplishment in classical China. Since he is the only really big Chinese to favor their cause, the Japanese prize him like some fragile T'ang Dynasty vase. Despite his record as a shifty recreant, despite the fact that Chinese honor him only in hatred, Wang is a brilliant mystic, not to be lightly dismissed. His establishment as Japan's super-puppet is therefore a major event in the China war. Japan hopes he will be able to bring about peace, but his beginnings last week augured ill for their hopes...
...first I thought he was just drunk," Ralph B. Bennett, Jr. '42 said after his cerie experience with the wild-eyed, mystic individual who claimed kinship with the deity. "But it didn't take me long to realize that it was something more than that...
...Blue Bird (20th Century-Fox). Votaries of mystic Belgian Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck may be puzzled to find a wild-west forest fire blazing in the middle of this much publicized screen version of his fantasy, The Blue Bird. They have other surprises in store for them...
...these factors contributed to the week's culminating blow. As expected, the weak Abe Cabinet fell. But definitely not as expected, and to the Army's bitter confusion, the Cabinet which took its place was not militaristic, not chauvinistic, not even mystic-was for down-to-earth opportunism rather than any magic clichè of expansion. Worst of all, its Premier was a Navy man. And of all the Navy men in Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer...
...section of the press, North and South and in England, referred to as a "gorilla" proved himself through four years of heartbreaking war to be one of the ablest and most subtle statesmen in history. Step by step, chapter & verse, Carl Sandburg sets him forth as indeed the merciful, mystic and benign being of the monuments, but as also-and with profound consistency-a hard, circumspect, far-seeing politician and manager of men. Lincoln's speeches and writings were the work of a remarkably pure human intellect, always questioning, circumscribing the area in which he could be positive, saying...