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...most celebrated political prisoner has been Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the "Young Marshal." Son of fabulous "Old Marshal" Chang Tso-lin, who drank tiger blood and warlorded it over Manchuria until his assassination in 1928, the Young Marshal kidnaped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the fantastic Sian incident of 1936. Eventually he freed the Gissimo and surrendered himself, crying: "I, Hsueh-liang, am by nature rude and uncouth. . . . Blushing with shame, I receive from you . . . the punishment I deserve...
Revolutionary departures for a French Bill of Rights were economic guarantees (following the pattern of the Soviet Rus sian Constitution): the right of every citizen to a job, to a livelihood if he is incapacitated and cannot work, to private property acquired "through work and savings." But private property is also curbed: "every undertaking whose exploitation has, or acquires, the character of a public service or of a monopoly in fact must become the property of the community." With this provision, nationalization of key industries is constitutionally sanctioned...
Stockings & Coal. Booster Zhukov had something to boast about. The Rus sian occupation was heavy-handed but effective. Results, to date...
Last week, five days after his 62nd birthday, after three years and three months of isolated captivity, he found out. Rescued from his prison camp at Sian, 100 miles northeast of Mukden (TIME, Aug. 27), he flew into Chungking and a warm and wonderful welcome...
...outgunned and outflown. They fought on until winter brought a breathing spell. The Russians had landing gear which could be easily switched to skis, and they knew how to keep their engines and lubricants from freezing. The Germans did little about the winter except to complain. That year Rus sian winter grounded more of the Luftwaffe than Russian air action...