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Donald Nelson, now Chungking's Mr. Fixit, last week submitted the latest of many recent reports on China (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Salient excerpts from the Nelson* report to President Roosevelt...
Canada's Government had tried to solve its November reinforcements crisis (TIME, Nov. 13 et seq.) by adopting partial conscription: at least 16,000 of the Dominion's 60,000-odd home-defense draftees would be compelled to serve overseas; 5,000 would be sent in December, 5,000 in January, 6,000 in succeeding months. The commitments had been met, General McNaughton now admitted, only because the Government had anticipated substantial desertions, had moved enough troops to ports to "insure embarkation of a full complement of reinforcements." Undeniable was the fact that thousands of Canadian draftees simply...
...publishing special editions on every continent except Antarctica) that stories based on TIME are appearing in such unlikely papers as Yi Shih Pao of Chungking-En Son Dakika of Turkey, Min Juo Jih Pao of Nanning, Le Combattant (Journal Officiel de I'Association des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre du Maroc) published in Casablanca-and even in papers like the Berliner Borzen-Zeitung, Ncues Wiener Tagblatt and the Rheinische-Westfalische Zeitung (which pick up the news from TIME's Stockholm Edition and sneer at the truth...
There were two hitches: 1) the Sun must wait nearly two years for Caniff, until his present contract runs out in October 1946; 2) even then, Terry and his pals (Burma, the Dragon Lady, et al.) will stay in the Colonel's stable-because the rights to Terry belong to the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Though this arrangement is common practice in the comic-syndicate field, it has been Caniff's most compelling complaint against his present boss. When he works for Marshall Field he will own his own strip, and also...
Since virtually all the hair-raisers have been U.S. shows (The Green Hornet, The Shadow, et al.), the di-shivering will eventually be done in U.S. recording studios...