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...munitions are brought to aid China. Chinese troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line, and Chinese Communist forces were operating in Hopeh last week with such success that at times the Japanese lost briefly towns and villages along their main rail lines of supply & conquest. Impudent, chuckling, the Chinese Communist Yu Cheng-tsao cracked that his bands are hunting Japanese in a "Communist State" just formed by "7,000,000 Chinese farmers" in Hopeh...
Tonight the Guardian will continue its discussion of the German problem when Nikolai S. Timasheff, professor of Sociology, will speak on "The Conquest of Austria" over Station WAAR at 8:15 o'clock...
While Mrs. Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski was in Reno last fall, Hollywood reported that her fun-loving husband was seen dancing Big Apples with Garbo at Hollywood house parties. But the report had a cooked-up whiff to it. Garbo's Conquest was ready for release, and before such events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pressagents invariably concoct romantic blurbs. But when last December "Stoky" drank fond farewells with Greta in Manhattan on the eve of her departure for Europe, most people agreed that something more than publicity was in the air. When Conductor Stokowski himself sailed for Italy last month...
...Negotiate with a view to simultaneous settlement of the problems raised by Italy's conquest of Ethiopia and the presence of foreigners fighting in Spain...
Downing Street. Last week Mr. Chamberlain invited to No. 10 Downing Street the Italian Ambassador, spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, and in Mr. Eden's presence himself made, as Prime Minister, opening moves for quickly closing the breach between London and Rome opened by Il Duce's conquest of Ethiopia and sending of troops to Spain. Mr. Eden was thus subjected by the head of the House of Chamberlain to acute personal humiliation. Saturday and Sunday, for the first time since the Abdication Crisis there were meetings of the British Cabinet. A patient, drably-dressed crowd almost filled...