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Alarm over the North China area larger than Ethiopia which Japan is trying to detach from China's Nanking Government by military intimidation and a "war without battles'' (TIME, Dec. 9) last week brought Chinese War Minister General Ho Ying-chin hotfoot to Peiping. After heroic haggling with the resident Japanese militarists, General Ho was expected to announce this week a "new status" for North China, ambiguous and unsatisfactory to all concerned. Fresh Japanese brandishing of Might was expected to follow...
Maurois considers Kipling "the greatest writer of our time and one of the greatest of any time," but offers little evidence to support his view. Kipling's merit in Maurois' eyes is that he championed an heroic conception of life from the time, as a 21-year-old newspaper man in India, he published his first works, celebrating the stiff-upper-lip theory of the Englishman's duty to the Empire. Born only eight years after the Bengal Mutiny of 1857, Kipling lived in a period when English control of India was seriously threatened. Sent to England...
...fortunate as it is in the case of Melton. Pat O'Brien delivers the goods as usual and this reviewer would be glad to see him in a role worthy of his ability. Jean Muir and the ever-popular Frank McHugh round out a talented cast which, despite heroic efforts, fails to score on this department's gridiron...
...Pole, might have reached the conclusion that some astute press agent was handling publicity for the Eskimos, the Aurora Borealis and other features of those trackless wastes. Although all the books graphically picture the hardships of long winters and extreme cold, all make life in the North glamorous, exciting, heroic. And all three hymn the beauties of ardent and lovely Eskimo women who run wild through Greenland and are crazy about white...
...rising in the world he must also be shown overcoming difficulties, but unless his most serious problems are fully described, the difficulties must always seem minor, the defeats astonishingly unimportant. Thus, most volumes of this kind create the impression that the acquisition of millions is about as hard and heroic as falling...