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Died. Stella Benson Anderson, 41, British novelist and voyageuse; of pneumonia; in Hongay, Tonking, French Indo-China. A suffraget before the War, she aspired to "wit, learning, strangeness, loneliness," went around the world six times in tramp steamers, worked on a Colorado strawberry ranch, did airplane stunting in California, was maid to an opera singer, nearly starved in Japan, shot tigers in India and taught school in China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where...
...split with Premier Sarraut's Radical Socialists (actually Liberals) and based on a promising alignment which loomed last week between the Radical Socialists and potent centre blocs dominated by towering, dynamic former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin. As a great colonial administrator Premier Sarraut, twice Governor of French Indo-China, spoke to journalists of restoring French prosperity by "putting our colonies to work" and of strengthening the garrisons of France with colonial troops. Two Moroccan regiments were ordered to Lyons, but not without causing the pale eyebrows of General Maxime Weygand to lift. Great General Max, the Army...
...Sent to Indo-China as Governor-General, Tomcat Sarraut lost several more lives in a stern, successful effort to put down native rebellions and buttress unshakably the Chinese cornerstone of French empire. At a reception a native with a bomb shook the Governor-General's hand, grew nervous under his steady gaze, lost courage, shuffled on down the reception line, then turned and threw the bomb which blew a great hole in the floor near M. Sarraut. Few months later another bomb, hurled directly at the Governor-General, missed him by inches, rolled among a crowd and blew twelve...
...Governor-General Sarraut returned to France, enlisted and lost a few more of his lives on the Western Front winning a breastload of medals. After the War he went back to Indo-China, again as Governor-General, only to be attacked by a Chinese Communist with a repeating pistol who pumped him full of lead...
Months ago Britain, though slow to bestir herself, started to fight Japan's dumping prices by denouncing the 28-year-old Indo-Japanese trade treaty and sharply upping India's tariffs on non-British cotton. British West Africa followed suit. Egypt, whose fat King Fuad is a British puppet, promptly swung into line with higher tariffs. Later even Dutch Queen Wilhelmina's newly named "Netherlands India" (once the Dutch East Indies) joined in building the white man's tariff dike against Japan's cheap textiles...