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...Tokyo last week, Cabinet Ministers scuttled in & out of Emperor Hirohito's moat-encircled palace. The assent of the Son of Heaven was required to dozens of decisions, most important of all to the drastic decision of the military high command to ship Japan's entire regular army -some 260,000 men-across the sea to China...
...Commanders. To undertake this great campaign, the Japanese Government appointed General Iwane Matsui to supreme command of the combined army and navy forces. Matsui understands the Chinese almost as well as his own countrymen, once cooperated with that intense Chinese patriot Sun Yatsen, "Founder of the Chinese Republic," to promote "Pan-Asianism" in China. Though this credo was directed against China's National Government as well as against Russia, Matsui was shrewd enough to fool a good many naturally-cautious Chinese, was received with open arms wherever he went. Now his job is not to fool them...
...point of fact, the Italians, although the most numerous of Franco's foreign allies, formed only one of the three columns that closed in on starving Santander. The other two columns consisted of Navarre royalists. Moors and regular cavalry, all under command of Spanish General Jose Fidel Davila. successor on the Basque front to the ablest of all Rightist commanders, the late General Emilio Mola...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved into the spotlight on the Spanish civil war stage last week, took personal command of the drive on Santander, last important Loyalist stronghold on the Biscay coast. Anxious to bolster his prestige, chubby Franco stood behind his lines, watching as his Rightists, Moors, Italian "volunteers" rolled down the sloping hills toward Santander...
With all the science of 5,000 years of civilization at his command, a Connecticut geology professor last week was puzzled by a problem which intrigued ancient Ulysses. Ulysses watched the slim dark fishes dart from the Mediterranean, spread their big fins, and shoot through the air 25 to 30 m.p.h. for as long as 13 seconds, just as Magellan watched them, just as U. S. holiday voyagers on cruises to Havana and Caribbean ports watch them. But do they fly or glide...