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...Harbin. There was other good news from Manchuria for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. The Nationalist Army organ Ho Ping Pao reported that the Russians had granted permission for Chiang's forces to occupy I) Changchun, Manchuria's capital, 2) Harbin, Northern Manchuria's rail hub, and 3) Dairen, Manchuria's most important harbor, where the Russians have trade rights. With these three cities, plus the Mukden arsenal and metropolis, the National Government would hold the keys to Manchuria's transport and industry...
Seattleites queued up at newsstands to snatch out-of-town papers. Even the shop ping newspapers-which added a stickful of world news-were read. A rally for General Wainwright flopped for lack of buildup. Broadcasters expanded their news staffs, put classified ads on the air, free. But, as in St. Louis (TIME, Aug. 27), the disturbing fact was that most people seemed to get along without papers...
Married. Lucy Truman Aldrich, 21, daughter (third of four) of Winthrop Williams Aldrich, board chairman of whop ping Chase National Bank; and Army Lieut. David Wetmore Devens, 26; both for the first time ; in Manhattan...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...
Recently, France's good friend, Annamite Emperor Bao Dai (a topflight ping-pong player), formed a government of Viet Minh leaders who promptly ousted Bao Dai. New ruler of Annam, Tonkin and Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...