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In China the civil war flamed briskly. It was a week of military setbacks for the Communists. After capturing Chengteh with surprising ease, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies were closing in on Chihfeng, last big Communist base in Jehol. Purpose of the campaign: to clear the railroad from...
Yours Is My Heart (music by Franz Lehar; book and lyrics by Ira Cobb and Karl Farkas; produced by Arthur Spitz) brought famed singer Richard Tauber to Broadway. First produced in 1928, Yours Is My Heart might well have been produced much earlier-its music has a dated schmalz and...
Most Americans, unfamiliar with Chinese geography, found China's war completely baffling. Its ultimate strategy hinged on control of China's arterial railroads. Like a huge capital A, these trunk lines run from Peiping (at the northern apex of the A) southward to Hankow and Nanking. The bar...
The laxness of our State Department and its individually indolent members has led to one Russian fait accompli after another from Berlin and Vienna to Seoul and Peiping, and the jelly-spined attitude of America's "diplomats" (sic) allows Russia to dare to plot still other grabs and double...
Marine headquarters refused to make accusations. Communist headquarters at Yenan was less circumspect; it announced that Red units had fought marines at Anping, called the battle a consequence of U.S. interference in China. U.S. authorities noted that the convoy had been taking supplies not to Chinese Nationalists, but to a...