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Certain it is that for some time the famed Eighth Route Army has been an uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

That was 23 years ago. Last week, into Kola Bay, north of the Russian harbor of Murmansk, the U. S. freighter City of Flint dropped anchor and thereby posed for Russia a far less crucial test of its neutrality, the skill of its diplomats, the wisdom of its foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week the monster emerged from its assembly shop for a test run on Chicago streets, found the going difficult. First it got jammed under a viaduct, later broke down twice. The front wheels had to be realigned, the throttles adjusted so that all wheels (each has a separate motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreadnaught Ditched | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

In TIME for Oct. 9, your interesting account of submarine warfare leaves me a bit puzzled. As a civilian ... I have held for some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

It was a maneuver technically necessitated by the fact that Poland's erstwhile "Strong Man" Marshal Smigly-Rydz and other members of the former Polish Cabinet had not only been interned but held strictly incommunicado in Rumania, as a result of joint pressure applied by Berlin and Moscow to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Union and Defense | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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