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What this meant was not that Rumanian efficiency had increased, but that Rumania was trying to check Nazi pressure, even though it had to be done with Italian boats and German guns. When, last March, Rumania signed a trade treaty with Germany, gave Germany extraterritorial rights in her ports, it looked as if the country had supinely surrendered. But operation of the treaty convinced observers that Rumania had promised to give away everything for the next 2,000 years, nothing for the next few months. Moreover, last week's happenings in Rumania had warned Rumanians of steadily increasing Nazi...
...Blue," says the Barbarian Britannus in Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra, "is the color worn by all Britons of good standing. In war we stain our bodies blue; so that though our enemies may strip us of our clothes and our lives, they cannot strip us of our respectability." Though Britons long since ceased painting themselves for battle, they were blue all over last week about their position on the Far Eastern Front of the War of Nerves. The Japanese, having stripped Far Eastern Britons of clothes and Face (Oriental for respectability), moved troops into position along the border...
Britain's territorial integrity in Hong Kong would not be worth a bosun's whistle if Japan really attacked the possession. Last week's maneuver, though its announced purpose (like that of the occupation of Canton in October 1938) was to cut the flow of supplies into Free China, was obviously also intended as a threat to Hong Kong. The Japanese military warned British authorities 48 hours beforehand of the intended move, and brought supplies, indicating a long stay...
...heaviest battalions; sometimes, as in the case of Switzerland, He is on the side of the country with the tallest mountains. Geography has always decided where wars are fought and how they are fought. World War I was no exception. World War II is not likely to be-even though airplanes add to the geography of war a new three dimensional veneer...
Unfulfilled ambition of the late, superserious Sir Edward Grey was to write a leader for the London Times Literary Supplement on the works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. This summer, bald, easygoing Author Wodehouse received an honorary D. Litt. from Oxford, drew plaudits for his style (TIME, July 10). Though many a lesser humorist has crept up behind the Wodehouse technique, tried to sprinkle salt on its tail, only the Old Master himself can really catch it. He does it by rewriting everything at least three times, concentrating and sharpening his effervescent prolixity. Thus revised, markedly improved since its serialization...