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...fine performance as a psycho-neurotic refugee by Eleanora Mendelssohn and some good murder scenes are the main features of "The Secret Room." These are also a pair of unusually good child actresses, whose lines and behavior almost completely avoid that theatrical sin, cuteness...
...Under Generalissimo Chiang's leadership both the Kuomintang and the Communists will do their utmost to avoid civil war and build a free, prosperous China...
...avoid expense and useless trips for persons [who are] ready to come great distances to the grotto . . . [and] desirous to enlighten public opinion on this matter, we have decided to appoint a board of inquiry, whose conclusion permits us [now] to declare the following...
...Most of the pills are barbiturates, which do not cause drug addiction. Some doctors avoid giving them if possible, as they can produce a pretty good jag, and neurotics or psychotic people can develop a sort of addiction. But many other doctors feel that any harm in sleeping pills is slight compared to their benefits, during mental or physical emergencies...
Since the occupation, U.S. correspondents had watched with anger and amazement the Japs' Domei News Agency getting away with murder. Domei lectured the invading forces on how they must behave (TIME, Sept. 17), published eight bright suggestions on how Japanese women might avoid rape by brutal U.S. troops, explained why Japanese war criminals should not be punished too severely. Most galling to U.S. reporters, Domei dispatches at first were censor-free, later given only a once-over-lightly by U.S. blue pencils...