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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose whereabouts is usually a military secret, last week was revealed to have moved to a new headquarters in southern Hunan Province, midway between fallen Hankow and Canton. With British munitions and supplies cut off by Canton's fall and the possibility that French Premier Daladier will heed Japan's demand to close the supply route to China from French Indo-China, the onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck...
Points Nos. 1 & 2 were said to be actively urged by Adolf Hitler, who recently sent secret proposals to Paris after a four-hour conference at Berchtesgaden with the retiring French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet, who now goes to Rome. At No. 10 Downing Street it has been accepted for some time that colonial territory must be given Germany, somehow or other, and Paris hopes with London to get, in exchange, pacts intended for "humanizing warfare," together with German and Italian cooperation in measures to remove some of the present restrictions on world trade...
Miss Densmore's finds include whole Indian folk operas, entertainments requiring as long as nine hours to perform. Medicine men have confided to her secret therapeutic chants. A typical one is the San Bias Indians' cure for hangover...
Owens-Illinois and Corning are model parents for the new company. Owens, with total assets of $87,562,251, is the world's largest bottlemaker; their chemist, Games Slayter, started perfecting fibre glass seven years ago. Corning (assets and profits secret) has specialized in technical refinements; it was to Corning that Thomas Edison went in 1878 asking for a little glass bubble in which to put his incandescent filament...
...revolutionary secret agent in the Far East in 1926 was a little like a soldier who cannot be sure his allies will not go over to the enemy in the middle of battle. Malraux was no Communist, but worked with the Kuomintang in the period of the united front between the Kuomintang and the Third International. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies in 1927, and the Chinese Revolution ended in a swirl of executions, betrayals, assassinations, Malraux left China for good, accompanied an archeological expedition through Persia and Afghanistan on his way back to France. The expedition...