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...from the ashes of World War I. A new Rapallo-Locarno policy would again enable Germany to play the two power blocs off against each other, and reap rewards from both. Adenauer was "too dogmatic" and he was also too dependent on the U.S., which Herr Professor Brüning said gloomily, is headed for an economic slump.* Then up stood old Hans Luther, another pre-Hitler Chancellor (1925-26) and one-time Ambassador to the U.S. He agreed with Brüning. Through an aroma of fragrant cigars, West Germany's bankers and businessmen nodded slowly...
Expert Help. Most revealing of the tributes was a speech by China's No. 2 labor boss, Lui Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...
White flag in hand, a 28-year-old Chinese officer crossed into the allied lines one day last week, just bursting with talk. Lieutenant Fan Wei-ning cheerfully gave out vital facts on the officers and men in his division-their ages, their equipment, their battle plans. Then he asked for a map of the village where his division was based, and eagerly pinpointed supply dumps, command posts and gun positions...
Student Li Ping-ning: "America contaminated my moral thinking with such books as How to Win Friends and Influence People and Short Cut to Success...
...four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...