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...SULU SEA MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). Captain North of the Army Intelligence perspires freely while solving murder in a tropical outpost. Pearls, meteorology and domestic polyangle show the clues to the culprit...
...Asiatic relations, particularly with that fanatically aggressive nation, Japan. For should our trade with Russia expand (and that is the plum held out by the rotund M. Litvinov), a large part of it might very well be handled from Seattle and ports along that coast to Vladivostok, the outpost city of the Union in lower Siberia. This would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok and the Maritime Provinces, of which it is the keypoint. Back in 1919, shortly after the war, Japan, who had joined the Allies...
...gleaming Canada House-the Dominion's splendiferous sandstone outpost facing London's Trafalgar Square -representatives of the Big Four wheat exporting powers (U. S., Canada, Australia and Argentina) bickered in exasperation last week with a Soviet Russian, bland, obstinate Comrade Abraham Gourevitch...
After capturing the outpost of Dolonnor from a mixed Manchukuo-Japanese garrison, smart Marshal Feng summoned all China to join his "struggle for righteousness." This crucially embarrassed the Chinese Government of wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek who had made and is striving to keep a precarious peace with Japan. For weeks Chinese patriots sent fighting funds to War Lord Feng, who had fancy arm bands with fighting mottoes expensively stitched on his soldiers' sleeves, then suddenly announced, "I am going into retirement" (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week the Government of slim, shrill Generalissimo Chiang had to send a private...
...them for better breeding of future generations. That is, do with humans what she has done with mice. She has tried to get the American College of Surgeons to keep the records in their plant, but so far she has not been successful. She calls genetics the "last outpost of science," thinks some day people will pay the attention to their own breeding that they do now to their cows and horses and dogs...