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...ramified pragmatist, John Dewey. Born in Shanghai, the son of a geographer, Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy as a child. As a teacher of English during the dark period before the Chinese Revolution, he grew increasingly morbid and dissipated, was once jailed for brawling with a policeman. He came out of this phase to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"), went on to study under Dewey at Columbia in 1915-17. Dr. Hu's four-volume student diary is still a Chinese bestseller...
Symbol of the grief was an unperturbed lad of 19 with an English name, Thomas Williams, who had lived in mediocrity and who died (by the rope) in glory, saying he died for Ireland. By the murder of a Belfast policeman last Easter Sunday morning, Thomas and five friends, said to be members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, commemorated Eire's Easter Rebellion...
...stopper on the stream of supplies from the U.S. to Britain. It was a fact that the I.R.A. is as hostile to De Valera's Government as to the British. The facts : the Eire Government two years ago executed two I.R.A. men for shooting a Dublin policeman; at least 500 I.R.A. men are now political internees in Eire; in Eire it is a capital offense even to shoot at the police, and such political crimes are tried not by jury but by special military courts...
...military men are also in Persia, but they are not yet an army. They are engineers, airmen, quartermasters, building roads and ports, forwarding military supplies to Russia over its Caspian routes. Last week the appearance at Teheran of a new U.S. figure-Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf (the New Jersey policeman who failed to solve the Lindbergh kidnapping)-to reorganize and enlarge the national police in Persia perhaps presaged the coming of U.S. combat forces, but for the present any fighting would be a job for the British and Russians...
...Macon, Ga., during a quarrel between soldiers and Negro civilians, a Negro soldier grabbed a sergeant's pistol, killed a Macon policeman and wounded the sergeant...