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India & China: "The European bourgeoisie is now in a state of war with 'its own' colonies in India, French Indo-China, Malaysia and North Africa. There is a similar state of war in 'independent' China. The imperialist powers blame Bolshevik propaganda and say our embassy fomented the Chinese trouble. We have no such representative now in South China, yet the trouble there is worst of all. In 'their' colonies it is not propaganda but the misery of suffering and exploitation by alien conquerors that cause the revolt. The imperialists themselves are the best 'propagandists' for the Bolsheviks. . . . Every ruffian tries...
...Lacoste, holder at various times of U. S., British and French tennis championships, expert golfer; to Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion French woman golfer, onetime holder of the British women's golf championship, expert tennis player, daughter of the Director & General Manager of the Bank of Indo-China; at Paris; after a courtship long prolonged by the groom's weak lungs...
Author Maugham writes with few illusions about himself, about his writing. Says he: "This book is the record of a journey through Burma, the Shan States, Siam, and Indo-China. I am writing it for my own diversion . . . I am a professional writer, and I hope to get from it a certain amount of money and perhaps a little praise." Exotic parts have a kind of fascination for Traveler Maugham, but little glamour. His book is consequently better reading than most such records...
...awarded (in Paris) by the International League of Aviators. The league was founded in 1926 by Clifford Harmon, to recognize and reward the persons who do each year's outstanding air work. Costes' 1929 work: non-stop flight from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, 4.910 mi. (farthest); Hanoi, Indo-China, to Paris, 4 days, 18 hrs. (fastest); closed circuit, 4.987 mi., around Marseilles (longest); with one ton cargo 2,048 mi. (farthest) for 18 hrs. i min. 20 sec. (longest). The 1927 award went to Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the 1928 to Arturo Ferrarin...
...also with individual sounds: Zipf has gathered statistics in thirteen languages as widely separated in time and space as Bulgarian, Italian, and Sanskrit, and finds in them a startling confirmation of his theory. For in all these tongues, offsprings of the ancient Indo-European parent, the less "conspicuous" sounds are the more frequent. Thus "t" occupies about 7 per cent in all these languages, "d" about 3, 1-2 per cent; the very "conspicuous" "dh" is rarest of all dentals...