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...those four weeks the Japs had snatched back miles of the railroad from Chinese guerrillas and regular troops, had swept westward to buttress their holdings against attack. They had driven south through ruined Changsha, contested for the fourth time in five years. They marched on through quiet little Hengshan, near the five sacred Buddhist mountains. This week they pierced the outer gates of a vital rail junction, Hengyang-most important city sought by the Japanese since Canton and Hankow...
...planes were needed against Jap shipping off the China coast; they were needed up north on the Yellow River, where the enemy was .trying to drive westward in Honan Province; they were needed down south on the Salween, where the Chinese were driving laboriously into Burma to join up with Stilwell's forces...
Namik Kemal was one of the leaders of the Tanzimatists, founders of the 19th-Century Young Turks, who first began modernizing their country and turning its ideas westward...
...character of the U.S. press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper...
...guest-&-host basis (see LETTERS). The U.S. has underwritten British obligations to Iceland to the tune of $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. pays good U.S. dollars for Iceland's fish and fish products. Chances are that if the Icelandic Republic leans in any direction, it will lean westward...