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...number of Chinese sat down with four smart Westerners: Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China); his wife Nym Wales (Inside Red China); John Alexander, secretary to British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr; and Shanghai Municipal Council's factory inspector, Rewi Alley. Their conclusion: China's only military skill was in small, mobile, spontaneous units; why not build China's economy in similar units-develop a guerrilla industry? John Alexander broached the idea to his boss. Sir Archibald was enthusiastic, at once took the plan to Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minister...
...still well satisfied with its estimate of results in last fortnight's raid on Sylt was shown last week when the man who planned that attack was promoted. Lean, hound-jawed Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, 54, Commander in Chief of the Bomber Command, was made Inspector General of R. A. F. and one of its four Marshals. To make way for him, Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, 62, stepped out voluntarily.* Both men are air veterans of World War I, younger Sir Edgar having the more brilliant record as a fighting pilot. Sir Edward served from...
Also Showing The Human Monster (Monogram). Repeated discovery of corpses on the mud flats of the Thames River causes Scotland Yard to suspect foul play. Proving it onvolves Inspector Holt (Hugh Williams), Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi) and Diana Stuart (Greta Gynt) in some routine Edgar Wallace blood-chilling in a mysterious home for blind...
...afternoon, a horde of men trooped into 23 schoolhouses to struggle with the Commission's first test (mental). Long lines of candidates shivered in the March wind. By nightfall, 75,000 men, second largest number in U. S. Civil Service history (100,000 took a U. S. customs inspector's examination a year and a half ago) had been examined...
...PATIENCE OF MAIGRET-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two novelettes by a fantastic Frenchman. Inspector Maigret waits while subordinates make the hue and brass hats foam and fret. And presently the guillotine snicks a cervix or Devil's Island claims another Gaul...