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...LEAF IN THE STORM-Lin Yutang-John...
Come All Ye Faithful (Thurs. 1 p.m. NBC Blue), a roll call of the Allied nations sponsored by the Council for Democracy, presenting Lin Yutang, Charles Boyer, Raymond Massey, others...
...mile chain of fronts from the Yellow River to the upper end of the Burma Road. The history of that chain of fronts is unique and anachronistic in World War II-there for 30 weary months has been positional warfare. China's foremost philosopher-apologist, Lin Yutang, wrote last week: "If Japan was able to report gains almost every month, why is it that in the last two and a half years Japan has made a total advance of not more than 250 miles, and then only at two points...
Still he wasn't quite convinced. He did know, however, that Lin Yutang was coming back to Harvard to give a lecture. While Vag had never read My Country and My People, that didn't stop him from knowing that Dr. Lin was a very great writer. He sort of felt instinctively that anybody who could write a book about China must be a great man. And besides, Lin Yutang had once gone to Harvard for a while, which would have made him a great man even if he hadn't written lots of books. Once he had heard somewhere...
...notion that "You can't understand the Oriental mind" is being dispelled by able writers and journalists of both races. Lin Yutang and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek show us China from the inside--John Gunther and Carl Crow from the outside. J.B. Powell continues to give us his important journal of opinion, the China Weekly Review, though he is on Wang's blacklist and has to have a bodyguard...