Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the only two nations carving out new foreign privileges in East Asia were the Soviet Russians and the Chinese. In Manchuria the Russians had taken back many of the Tsar's concessions-a naval base at Port Arthur, a free port at Dairen, a 30-year partnership in the main Manchurian railways. They were asking for more-reportedly for control of Manchurian heavy industry, long regarded as the key to China's future...
...Chungking the Chinese Government signed a new treaty with France. The weakened Fourth Republic gave up its old extraterritoriality rights in China. It also agreed to special privileges for China in French Indo-China-a free port at Haiphong and railway rights from the Indo-China coast to the South China hinterland...
Other requested items: 1) "a sample of Uranium 235, with details as to the plant [at Port Hope, Ont.] where it is produced"; 2) details of the Canadian atomic-energy plant at Chalk River, Ont.; 3) the contents of telegrams passing into and out of the Canadian External Affairs Department...
Greek ships brought back good ideas from every Mediterranean port. The idea of the Griffon (600 B.C., see cut) came from Asia Minor. Egypt contributed to the cold, finely modeled formalism of Youth from Andros. But the linear energy of The Cottenham Relief, a horse and horseman, was closer to real life than anything the Egyptians produced (see cuts). To the Greeks, gods were fairly human, and human strength and grace were godly characteristics. At the roots their religion remained anthropocentric-man was the center of the universe and the measure of all things...
...King David ruled in Jerusalem, a tall, strapping Egyptian general, named Unjebanenjebet began to have intimations of mortality. Like any Egyptian noble, what concerned him most was the proper accouterments for his journey to the Land of the Dead. His Pharaoh, Psousennes, who ruled at Tanis, near present-day Port Said, had assigned him a burial chamber in the wall of his own royal tomb. But the next essential, a proper stone sarcophagus, was hard to find...