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...second-longest role of Cassius, Brutus' brother-in-law who originates the murder plot, a bearded Harris Yulin makes his position more plausible and less villainous than we usually see--and perhaps it should be said that there are no thorough villains in this play, except for the gang that lynches a poor poet merely for having the same name as one of the conspirators...
...came to Hainan in in B.C. For centuries the island was a torrid Siberia where imperial dynasts often dumped political foes. * Between 1939 and 1945 the Japanese transformed Hainan into another kind of imperial base. On the undeveloped, malarial outpost, they established military camps, dredged a deepwater harbor at Yulin on the south coast, developed rich iron mines, built a hydroelectric plant, cement factory and fish cannery. The Japanese enterprises have deteriorated because the Hainanese lack replacement parts and maintenance skill. Hsueh is tearing down one of two arsenals and shipping it to Formosa, "We don't have...
Miss Chang Yulin held out the ultimate threat: "If I fail, I shall reveal all the secrets of the elections...
Inner Mongolia was the bloody scene of a furious contest between Generals Tang Yulin and Liu Kwei-tang, reported in dispatches to have devastated the eastern part of the Province of Chahar. But was not this, after all, their "private war"? The Council of Generals took that view. Generalissimo Chiang had neatly solved, they felt, the larger issue presented when Mongol generals under Prince Teh Wang raised the standard of Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians (TIME, Oct. 23). To Inner Mongolia the Nanking Government thereupon sent an envoy who ''granted local self-government," but persuaded the Inner Mongols...
...Japanese brigades which advanced further than from Portland. Me. to Manhattan, sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth of blizzards. Day before Jehol fell, her Governor, famed War Lord Tang Yulin who received correspondents fortnight ago confidently seated on an antique Manchu Throne, seemed to be in a befuddled stupor-possibly from opium which, as Jehol's chief crop, is supposed to have made Tang a Chinese silver dollar millionaire...