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...treasures that went into it in 1396. It rang long & loud on liberation night. Part of the Japanese false front of modernism, they learned, was a race track beyond the East Gate. The Japs took their horses away, so it is closed. Near the South Gate, called Nam Tai Moon, the brick railway station was seething with refugees and other travelers. Nobody was northbound-that way lay Manchuria. Only a handful of Russian liaison officers-no troops-had appeared in Seoul. When one carload neared the city, they were politely turned back...
...workers. The political pattern was similar to that in Poland, where the Communist-controlled underground clashed with the underground loyal to the Polish Government in Exile. In Shanghai the Communist underground was fighting a bitter, no-quarter battle against Chungking's underground, organized by keen, self-effacing General Tai Li, head of the Central Government's secret service. It was a battle in the dark, a focus of China's undeclared civil war, with both antagonists hunted by the Japanese, and hunting each other against a background of Japanese-inflicted misery, desolation, hunger and brutality...
...until nearly midnight. After that he visits his private patients. What amazes Westerners in Chungking is not the number of his patients but their prominence: he attends such august personages as the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang, Cabinet Ministers T. V. Soong, H. H. Kung, Chen Cheng and police head Tai...
Australians call it willy-willy; Filipinos, baguios; Chinese, tai-fun; Indians, typhoon. It is the wildest and most destructive of all storms.* Last week Atlantic Coast Americans, who got their word for it from the Carib Indian Huracan (god of stormy weather), were treated to an unusually messy hurricane. For the second time in six years, a tropical cyclone hit the Eastern seaboard with full force...
Recently the Russian choreographer Igor Schwezoff brought The Poppy up to date. With a deft tour-en-l'air of the choreographic party line, Schwezoff abolished the evil British commander, converted Tai Hoa's murderer into a Japanese, added a British and a U.S. sailor (both very agreeable fellows), ended with the murder, not of Tai Hoa, but of the Japanese. The Manhattan audience did not seem to mind these alterations. As the Internationale burst from the City Center's orchestra, the crowd broke into cheers...