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...Showdown? Moscow newspapers called Churchill's speech "aggressive." And Moscow rapped Byrnes's finger when the Secretary tried to point out to Bulgaria how it could make its government more democratic. Bulgaria, Moscow made plain, is Russia's sphere...
...Astronomers used to think the "home galaxy" was merely a lens-shaped swarm of stars, revolving majestically in space. Now they think it has a more complicated structure. Last week two University of Virginia astronomers reported that the "red giant" stars seemed to be concentrated in a rough sphere near the hub of the galaxy. The commoner white stars (like the sun) had spread out in a wider, thinner disc. This discovery suggested that the red giants and the white stars may have had different origins. Perhaps all the galaxies had been formed in two great and separate spurts...
...Western civilization. "The relation of the German to the world is abstract and mystical, that is, musical. . . . The Germans have given the Western world perhaps not its most beautiful, socially uniting, but certainly its deepest, more significant music.*. . . Such musicality of soul is paid for dearly in another sphere-the political, the sphere of human companionship...
Falling Reservoir. Indonesia was an embarrassment to Britain in her own Asiatic sphere. If Premier Sjahrir's Government were recognized, repercussions would be felt in India, Burma, Malaya. On the other hand, so long as Indonesia remained unsettled, other pressing imperial problems-dangerous rice shortages, a crippling lack of transport, labor unrest-would be sharpened...
...Japanese capital was used to set up opium shops and dens. In large part it financed both the Japanese Army and Chinese puppet regimes. Every phase of the traffic was regulated and taxed. From the Chinese hub, it radiated to all corners of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere": in Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, too, the number of addicts multiplied...