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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government is already, through relief rolls and WPA projects, providing support for a very substantial number of lawyers. At the same time it sees a large number of citizens who help pay taxes, deprived of legal services because they can ot pay the provisional scale of prices...
Japanese troops in China now number 1,000,000, are divided into 33 divisions (of 30,000 each, and three cavalry brigades). In South China there are three divisions, in Central China 14, in North China 16. This imposing array of warriors and war machines, however, is locked tight to its present conquered territory, engaged solely in guarding its garrison posts and communication lines. Against them Chinese forces in the last six months have won back more towns and outposts than they have lost. Without sending more men to China, the Chinese argue, the Japanese cannot marshal...
Disturbed by the number of German youths who have skipped across the frontier to join the French Foreign Legion, Nazi officials decided that Young Germany was reading too many thrillers like Beau Geste and Under Two Flags. Last week all books on the Foreign Legion were banned from German school libraries, because they "tend to confuse the immature." Since the French would never trust German against German, the frontier-jumpers were probably less interested in romance than in a job in a nice, relatively safe African protectorate if and when the guns begin to go off in Europe...
...palace last autumn (TIME, Oct. 17), the incidents in his rustic progress did not appear to have been stage-managed by Nazi leaders. But Cardinal Innitzer may have expected something of the sort. He has ceased flying a papal flag on his automobile, has had its license number changed. Last fortnight he ordered all priests, monks and nuns in his archdiocese to wear secular dress in the streets...
...Fewer midwives. In 1938 the number of midwives declined...