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...elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist, of a neutral nation, who would help orient the policies of the Society of Jesus toward a world-wide battle against Fascism as well as Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Franco and Jesuits | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Just what is going to happen as a result of the present hostilities is hard to say," stated the diplomat, veteran of 36 years, experience in the Orient. "There is no doubt that the war has created a great national feeling in China, and in Japan it is not wholly backed by the mass of the people by any means," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Rally Against Japan Backed By Soviet Planes, Says Julean Arnold | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

...doctors, surgeons, nurses and diplomats in Nanking are not in a position to have their names attached to accounts which they have written and forwarded to their superiors. These tell of countless cases in which the prestige of the white man in the Orient was still sufficient at Nanking during the worst days for a judicious word, a stern remonstrance or a gentle but firm use of physical strength to do much. More than one Japanese soldier, raping a Chinese woman in broad daylight in the streets of Nanking, was chased off by a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Basket Cases | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

When the Norssex case breaks, Editor Carrough is in the Orient. Junior is relieved because he imagines his father, if he had been in Athena, would have stuck his neck out to defend his old friend. But when Editor Carrough returns, and is asked to use his personal influence to lighten old man Norssex' stiff sentence, he keeps his neck as firmly in his collar as any other Athena businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crisis on Main Street | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...John Dos Passos published a book on Spain, Rosinante to the Road Again, followed it five years later with one on his travels in the Near East, Orient Express. These random recollections of unconventional journeys were written in a glancing, impressionistic style, with characterizations of fellow travelers blending with offhand comments on politics and tag lines from overheard conversations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roving Writer | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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