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From the East. Myitkyina was the easternmost end of the road to China. Already from Yunnan province another road was being freed to complete the route. Chinese forces who held that stretch had crossed the Salween River and last week were fighting for the road town of Tengyueh. With crude ladders they scaled the ancient walls built in Marco Polo's day, turned modern flamethrowers on the Japanese defenders. At week's end they had occupied the inner defenses. Between Tengyueh and Myitkyina there were no Japs...
Last week crowds of demonstrators marched in the streets of Buenos Aires, chanting "Argentina, si! Yanquis, no!" They paraded before the U.S. Embassy, threw rocks at the English Pharmacy, at Charley's American Bar. They also rocked the newly freed La Prensa and other anti-Axis papers...
...Signed two joint resolutions of Congress outlining U.S. policy toward the Philippines. The resolutions provide that the U.S. shall: 1) give the Philippines full independence as quickly as possible after they are freed from the Japanese; 2) aid in the economic rehabilitation of the islands; 3) acquire land and air bases, as well as naval stations...
...elected President of Honduras in 1932, twice extended his term without elections. Several times he put down revolts, left his prisons full of political enemies in spite of petitions from other Latin countries. Now he faced a growing storm of popular rebellion. Across the border of newly freed El Salvador, Honduran exiles were eagerly crowding, filling the free Salvadoran press with at tacks upon...
John Jacob Astor III, pear-shaped prince of the idle rich, drove down a Manhattan street in a brand-new Rolls-Royce, smacked into a jaywalking 17-year-old boy, was hustled off to a police station, where he borrowed two nickels to make phone calls, was freed and cleared after two hours of questioning, left in another brand new Rolls-Royce which he had summoned with one of the borrowed nickels...