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...Fate Andre Malraux told the fearful story of a few days in Shanghai that shook the Eastern world-the period in the fall of 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies and the Chinese revolution ended in a swirl of arrests, assassinations, executions, torture. Malraux's account was fiction, but to Occidental readers it seemed far more real than the wild and contradictory newspaper reports of what happened to the remnants of the Chinese Communists...
...cynicism and his occasional tossing over of an economics teacher to the Red-seeing rage of the populace, he reveals that he has built up a dike by means of most of the influential newspapers of the country against war propaganda from either side. In a great swirl of mixed emotions, including revived love for Sara and conviction that the people are sick of neutrality, he lets down the dike, first playing up the story of the French sinking of an American ship carrying contraband. When war begins to loom, the credit of the Garrison business is restored, and factory...
...bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness. But in with the searing cynicism of their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul mess they kick up now and then, are essentially decent animals, except for one percent consisting of such specimens as international munitions-makers...
Into the vortex of the New York Cocoa Exchange one day last week dropped a single bid for 60,000,000 Ib. of cocoa. Placed by Hershey Chocolate Corp. and amounting to nearly $6,000,000, the order brought to a sharp halt a selling swirl which had carried down the price of cocoa nearly 25% within a fortnight and forced the Exchange at one point to suspend trading. The Hershey bid, slightly under the market, was not filled, but coming from the world's largest cocoa buyer the gesture was enough...
...Caulaincourt to give him another potion, spinning out his disconnected, feverish explanation of his rise and fall. Ending with this bitter scene, Caulaincourt's memoirs have an almost symphonic symmetry: they begin at the moment of the Empire's greatest strength and trace its collapse in the swirl of defeats, treacheries, frustrations, massed chances, which followed one another faster than the imagination could encompass them...