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Quid pro Quo. Russia's attention may well focus on the Far East. Stalin may ask for "an independent Soviet Republic of Manchuria, affiliated with the U.S.S.R.; a similar Republic of Korea; and even, perhaps, the Northwestern Chinese Soviet Republic of Sinkiang, Ningsia and Shensi." Russia, said Duranty, wants control of West Pacific ports, has no love for Japan and will be willing to cooperate in "our death stroke" against the Japanese when the U.S. puts into action "a really powerful force of airplanes...
Lewis, a jolly, articulate man in his prime, retired as the head of Northwestern University's chemistry department in 1924. To the last he predicted that Germany would use gas when it finally got into a hopeless situation. Said he: "Poison gas has lost two of its sources of value-the element of surprise and the element of use against defenseless troops...
...course entitled "Europe, 1943" will replace the previously announced Geography 16b, "Northwestern Europe," in the next semester, the Department of Geology and Geography has announced...
...Among his students: Margaret Mead (And Keep Your Powder Dry, TIME, Nov. 30), Colum bia's Ruth Benedict, Yale's Edward Sapir, Northwestern's Melville Jean Herskovits, the late Elsie Clews Parsons, University of Cali fornia's Alfred L. Kroeber, Harvard's Alfred Marston Tozzer, University of New Mexico's Leslie Spier, University of Pennsylvania's John Alden Mason...
Died. Walter Patten Murphy, 69, often called "richest bachelor," boxcar manufacturer (Standard Railway Equipment), donor of Northwestern University's $6,735,000 Technological Institute; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. He built a fortune estimated at $80,000,000 on his development of a corrugated steel end for boxcars. He kept his private life so private that when he made his gift to Northwestern in 1939 the university had to look him up in Who's Who to find...