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Into Shanghai's foreign settlements from the war-torn countryside nearly a million and a half panic-stricken Chinese refugees had surged by last week, some with cholera, some with expected smallpox and all with ravenous stomachs. "They constitute a menace to the safety of Shanghai on a par with the menace of the war itself. . . . God alone knows what will happen!" groaned International Settlement Municipal Councilman W. H. Plant. "The public little realizes the dangers Shanghai is facing. . . . These 1,500,000 people are evidently going to remain indefinitely. Food riots, epidemics and disease seem certain...
...Madrid last week United Pressman Henry Gorrell had fun with a typical visitor to Spain's war-torn metropolis, steered him into a cafe. "He was enjoying his beer," cabled Mr. Gorrell. "when the 'something' he wanted to see took place. There was a high-pitched whistle, followed almost instantly by an earshattering roar. Glass showered over the cafe tables as people dropped to their hands and knees. When the cannonading was over I took the visitor out into the street again...
...writing and influence did much to bring about, he was a deputy to the new Republic's first Cortes. At the outbreak of the Franco rebellion last summer, Ortega added his signature to a proclamation of loyalty to the Government. Later, a sick man, he left his war-torn country for neutral France. The essays in his book were all written before the Spanish civil war began, but this historian's-eye-view reveals an even grimmer prospect than appears in current headlines and newsreels...
...War-torn Spain" will form the subject for one of the most eagerly awaited addresses of the Harvard Teachers and Student Union in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight...
...Nanking Government's Finance Minister, owl-eyed, stubble-haired T. V. (Tse-vungj) Soong, left war-torn China last April to see what the world thought of China v. Japan. While he was talking in clipped Harvard English in the Foreign Offices of the U. S., Britain, Germany, France and Italy, his superior, Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, made truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). Since then Japanese have loudly applauded Chiang's ''reasonableness," confessed their "satisfaction"' with the attitude of Huang Fu, chief of the North China Political Council. Japanese diplomacy was making rapid headway...