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America First was not in a happy spot. In the unhappiest spot of all was elderly, vehement Robert Elkington Wood, Brigadier General of the U.S. Army (retired), holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, Companion of the British Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., boss of America First...
Last week the unhappiest figures man can tabulate-the casualties of war-began to pour in from Britain and Germany as an aftermath of the Greek campaign. Even though these official figures probably could not be taken at their face value, they totted up a serious material defeat for Britain...
...James Joyce, like the article in your Feb. 10 issue. In a world where Joyce had nothing but kicks in the head, I am glad that there is someone on TIME who has the sense and charity to recognize the best writer of the century and one of the unhappiest...
...unhappiest of those who were waiting for bombs in London last week was little Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu. One reason he was unhappy was because he knew all about bombs. On the morning of April 29, 1932, an insurgent Korean rushed a grandstand in Shanghai's Hongkew Park, where Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday, and threw a "thermos bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities...
...Unhappiest esthete in Japan last week was Charles Arsene-Henry, French Ambassador to Tokyo. A scholar of Japanese language and literature, voluminously informed particularly on Japanese poetry, polite as a Japanese minstrel, Ambassador Arsene-Henry falls into the first classification. Last week he was cruelly hounded by devotees of the second. In a week of bitterest tragedy for his France, it appeared that something equally ruinous might be at hand in Asia-the beginning of the end for the white man's oriental empires. The discomfort of Ambassador Arsene-Henry was pathetically symbolic...