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...able to report that Dictator Chiang now heads "the strongest Central Government in that country since the death of the Empress Dowager, Tzu Hsi"*and has "succeeded in uniting the Chinese people in a way that has not been known for centuries." Japanese suspicions of China are always dire and last week Tokyo commentators opined that Dictator Chiang can only be taking his present strong line if he has recently secured from Dictator Stalin a secret treaty of Soviet-Chinese military assistance. No evidence of this had come to light, but the Japanese have believed for many months that...
...flow of Spain's political fortunes. The dramatic threats of the Soviet and the deep-throated growls of dictatorships alike reecho but are dissipated on the rock of Anglo-French determination to preserve peace. But one country or another may overplay its hand in this game of bluff, with dire consequences for the world. Then Britain, France, and even the not-so-isolated United States will have to decide whether to play the role of the Spanish liberals and succomb, or whether steadfastly to deny the word "choose" and reassert "the middle...
...requirement for admission the completion of a four-year high-school course or its equivalent. Two of our schools have placed an added requirement, following the requirements very closely of those demanded by Class A medical schools. ... At this moment our colleges, each of them, is in dire need of endowment...
...colleges of osteopathy. Last year he reported thus: "I shudder to envisage the result to women in childbirth if their care were placed in the hands of those who do not believe in and have not been thoroughly trained in the bacterial cause of infection. And what dire calamities would immediately and inevitably befall our great centres of population, if their supplies of food and water and their sewage systems were controlled, not by men who had devoted long and arduous years to the medical sciences, but by those uninstructed and misinformed individuals who believe disease (for instance, typhoid...
...theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt, de Grévy's sister, appeared. She suspected Bengt's mother of looting the estate. Bengt had to raise money at once. But his only wealthy friend was half-Jewish and Bengt, compromising his convictions in his dire need, found himself trapped in another labyrinth of intrigue...