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The war between Thailand and French Indo-China ended last week. The victor was Japan. Nobody had asked Japan to mediate the quarrel, which had gone on intermittently in the swampy jungles along the Mekong River since October, but fortnight ago Tokyo offered its services. When the offer was not...
The play is neither quite so good as the idea nor so breath-taking as Broadway's swoon over it. Its dream fantasias are much less outlandish than the dreams any psychoanalyst might encounter in a day's work, sometimes lack sparkle, occasionally grow flatulent. But the whole production, spinning...
The Japanese enjoy an oriental logic of their own and twice last week they exhibited it:
Most controversial paper at the meeting was read by Dr. Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, professor of Oriental history at the University of Chicago. A decade ago he began writing a history of the Near East, found such disagreement among scholars over the origins of Christianity that he "was compelled to...
Excavations at Ezion-geber ("Solomon's Singapore") at the head of the eastern spur of the Red Sea have revealed "architectural, engineering and metallurgical skills which, in some respects, have hardly been excelled today." reported Archeologist Nelson Glueck. director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Important...