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Last night's lecture was the first in a series of four on "China in a New World." The topic was "China--Land and People," and Professor Chang made it clear that he was only laying the foundation for succeeding talks on "China and the World Powers," "China and Southeastern Asia," and "China and Japan...
...Agriculture Department reported mounting damage by drought to crops in the East Central states, but for most of the U.S. the weather had been near-perfect and yields were high. In Montana-as in Canada-last week a roaring wind-&-hail storm streaked for 100 miles through the southeastern counties, ripped barns to kindling, and flattened fields of wheat just as the dumfounded farmers were ready to thresh. Estimated loss: 2½ million bushels of wheat...
They got the final proof last week when B-29 Superfortresses of the Twentieth U.S. Air Force bombed the great Palembang oil refineries in remote southeastern Sumatra in the longest-range air assault of the war. If the B-29s could reach Palembang they could reach anywhere in Japan's homeland islands or in Greater East Asia...
Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...
...recess. There it fell afoul of Wyoming's monopoly-hating Joe O'Mahoney. Hastily he rounded up the Senate's Judiciary Committee and called Attorney General Francis Biddle to testify before it. Biddle gave his word that no prosecutions, except the current one against the Southeastern Underwriters Association (TIME, June 12), are contemplated until insurance companies have a chance to "digest" the Supreme Court decision. The Committee then shelved the bill, thus preventing a Senate vote until this fall...