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Ready in the East. In the Middle East, in Syria and Iraq and Persia, men in the British Ninth and Tenth Armies are also waiting. There, too, are the Poles of the Carpathian Brigade, who after the defeat of Poland sifted through the Carpathian Mountains, or through Russia or Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey and finally into the Middle East. Some of them have already fought with the Eighth Army. Now they are part of the new Polish army in Iraq. After nearly four years, they are eager for the battle to begin...
...great significance in the Bahá'i religion (TIME, July 20, 1931), because it is the final digit. The Bahá'i faith-boasting 29 adherents in Wilmette, 3,000 in the U.S., and more than 1,000,000 in the world-was founded in Persia in 1863 by one Mirzá Husayn-'Ali, who took the name of Bahá'u'lláh (Glory of God). His followers emphasize the unity of mankind, universal peace, abolishment of extreme inequalities of wealth, and a world faith absorbing all religions now extant. Prominent...
WINTER'S TALES-Isak Dinesen-Random House ($2.50). Eleven simple stories about weird people (Sample: "Of a girl, perverse and perhaps a little mad, who ran after the gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...
Ready in the East. The British have two armies-the Ninth and Tenth-in Syria, Palestine, Persia and Iraq. Fortnight ago troops on Cyprus,which has been built up into a formidable base, completed maneuvers, and the men were declared "ready to take the offensive." The Allies have had time to refurbish airfields in Cyrenaica, only 200 miles from Crete, a logical objective of Allied activity in the eastern Mediterranean and a. barrier to any invasion of the Balkans. For their part, the nervous Germans moved last-week into Italian Rhodes, on Crete's flank and only 100 miles...
...training job was terrific. Whereas the Eighth Army had thousands of square miles of desert to range and thousands of gallons of Iraq-Persia oil to expend, General Anderson had to conduct his maneuvers on the great farm that is England, and ration his thirsty tanks to save shipping. He had to remember that a single armored division's exercises would destroy crops equal to one week's food for England. Consequently the First had very little training as an Army before it went off to the wars...