Word: frontierisms
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Down from a Trans-Siberian Railway carriage at the frontier station of Manchouli stepped Japan's Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka one day last week. His hair was full of cinders and his head was full of plans. It was good to set foot once again on the soil of Manchukuo, since the previous Sunday more securely Japanese than ever. "I had not expected a neutrality pact with Russia at all," grinned Yosuke Matsuoka. "It was negotiated in ten minutes...
Government money subsidizes Christian colleges, Christian hospitals, Christian service councils. Government appropriations are made for Christian evangelists who go to the tribal districts of China's Far Western frontier. Mission universities are now backed in every possible way so that they may train brains for the new China. Their 1940-41 enrollment is a record 7,734, up 20% from peacetime 1937. Once forbidden by law to require religious study, they can now make the weekly compulsory Sun Yat-sen memorial meetings a forum for religious education...
...drawing up their plans, the Germans had first to compute the odds. In Yugoslavia they saw facing them some 16 fairly well trained infantry divisions, three moun tain divisions, two cavalry divisions, 16 frontier battalions, plus a few thousand relatively green reservists; an Air Force of perhaps 900 planes, but without reserve strength; an aggressive leader in the per son of General Dusan Simovitch, who had built the best air force in the Balkans virtually singlehanded - altogether a potentially formidable but completely un tried force of about 650,000 men. They counted a Greek force of at most 15 divisions...
...what he and radio needed was a William S. Hart of the air. Scripter Francis Striker, who had been grinding out a series called Warner Lester, Manhunter, concocted a story about a mysterious and gallant cowboy who fought against injustice of all sorts on the late 19th-Century western frontier. Earle Graser, one of half a dozen actors to be tried out, had just the right voice for the part-strong, romantic and confidence-winning...
...lady is prim, pretty Annie Morgan (Loretta Young), Quaker schoolma'am, who manages to ogle a choice lot out of Steve Lewis (Robert Preston), a lazy lawyer auctioning off land for Jim Cork (Edward Arnold), local tyrant, political boss, saloon keeper in the frontier town of Laraville...