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Chiang's return engendered optimism in Canton. Said a high government official: "We were like sheep without a shepherd-now our leader has returned...
...Shepherd Chiang had laid the basis for new confidence a week ago by flying to Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines. There he conferred with Philippine President Elpidio Quirino on preparation for an anti-Communist pact which other Asiatic countries would be invited to join...
...SHEPHERD, SPEAK! (629 pp.)-Upton Sinclair-Viking...
...Shepherd, Speak!-the tenth (and "I hope the last," says Upton Sinclair) of the Lanny books-the author has brought his hero's adventures up to date. Apparently working on the reasonable assumption that what has pleased 1,350,000 U.S. and English customers will please them again, Sinclair sticks close to his well-exercised formula. He thrusts Lanny into every important event in the mid-1940s, records the portentous if often empty conversations of the powerful, and buttresses his story at weak points with solid slabs of historical summary...
...early to tell what the plan has done for British health, but in an editorial called "The State Is My Shepherd" McPherrin says that there are "definite signs that it has done something to their faith in themselves." If the U.S. should ever adopt the same kind of a scheme, "we must be prepared to accept the same increases in taxes and government controls. But of much greater significance is the depressing effect upon the spirit of the people. Britons want security, but we do not think they have found it . . . To the extent that any man accepts the doctrine...