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...formation of International Commodities Trading Corp., Swiss-chartered, to barter among countries commercially hobbled by foreign exchange restrictions. Last week he concluded his first deal-an agreement to trade 1,000,000 bushels of U. S. wheat and a small amount of cotton for some $500,000 worth of Indo-China zinc and tin. The wheat will be traded on a basis of 50? a bushel at Chicago...
...Indo-China. I reached Saigon on the 13th day of the month and Hanoi on the 13th of the following month. And certainly no unlucky happening followed either of those two thirteens...
Prestige (RKO-Pathe) is a tedious hyperbole concerned with Army life in an Indo-Chinese penal colony. Ann Harding suffers the difficulties customary for heroines so situated: her husband (Melvyn Douglas) in his own phrase is "going to pieces." A Negro minion kills the admirer (Adolphe Menjou) with whom she endeavors to escape to Paris. There follows a prison riot in which Douglas redeems his prestige by switching his rebellious charges with a stock-whip. Good shot: the Negro servant looking mournfully at Ann Harding after he has murdered Menjou...
March: Faced by Red riots in French Indo-China, the Premier convened the High Colonial Council in Paris for the first time in three years and studied critically the results of guillotining 700 native Communists in the past two years?with the result that Minister of Colonies Paul Reynaud is now in the Far East "sympathetically examining native grievances...
...French Indo-China, Mr. Truu of Estonia, Mr. La of Bhutan, and 1,126 other colporteurs (peddlers) helped keep the Holy Bible the world's best seller last year. Word of their activities reached the U. S. last week in the 127th annual report of the British & Foreign Bible Society. Some facts...