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...Southern China the Japanese Army recklessly bombed the French-owned Yunnan-Indo-China railroad. French Ambassador to Tokyo Charles Arsène-Henri protested the loss of five French lives; and the U. S. Government made representations against this interference with the last railroad carrying American goods into China. Japan's answer was to bomb the line again. Japanese forces claimed great victories around Nanning. But meantime, for the first time since the war began, a Japanese had courage enough to stand up on his feet and criticize the Army not on minor points of procedure...
...Generalissimo Franco, still holding a grudge against Britain and France for their long refusal to recognize his Government, snubbed British and French commercial agents, although what Spain needed to recover was trade and more trade. The French sent their distinguished soldier, 83-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, to deal with the reluctant Spaniards, but even he had to cool his heels while waiting for audiences with Spanish officials...
...elusive crystal. By an optical illusion, the cuts appear as bas-relief. Steuben's skilled craftsmen took the commissioned artists' sketches, blew and engraved every piece by hand. Prices ranged from $400 for Jean Hugo's classical urn with centaur and unicorn to $1,000 for Henri Matisse's Oriental piper...
...Brussels, five days later, the 1940 Olympic Games were considered as good as canceled when Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that if the Games cannot be held in Finland, as scheduled, they will not be held at all. Originally the 1940 Olympics were to have been held in Japan, were switched to Finland because of the war in Eastern Asia (TIME, July...
...filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving the hind legs." Back in the U. S. after almost three years of voluntary exile in London was William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, fresh from tennis triumphs over Henri Cochet and Donald Budge, at 47 planning to play professional tennis here again...