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...quiet dignity of an office oppo site London's House of Lords, one of the last remaining governments in exile pre pared to return to the jungle. It consisted of the ailing, inactive White Raja of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, the young Raja Muda, and members of the Provisional Government, who eagerly followed the progress of the hard-hitting Australian liberation troops on Borneo {see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...several days, armored units made a great show of preparing a break-through to the south of that sector, until the enemy placed his best armor, the remnants of his loth and 21st Panzers, oppo site the diversion...
This year the final committee contained no great international figure. Last year Henri Matisse was on the jury and his good friend Pablo Ruiz Picasso won first prize (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). This year, beside the U.S. members, foreign artists on the jury were the Fascist Painter Cipriano Efisio Oppo, Britain's Paul Nash, France's Henry Eugene Le Sidaner. And for the first time since 1923 first prize went to a U. S. painter. Better, first prize went to one of the 30 unknown who had not been invited. Philadelphia, defeated in the World's Series...
...finals in 1923 when California's little William Johnston defeated Frank Hunter. WTood, who divides his time between New York and California, justified comparison with Johnston. Slight, delicate, with big forearms and incongruous stamina, he plays a heady game, often loses a set or two while experimenting with his oppo nent's weaknesses. As was Johnston's, his best shot is his forehand though until this year it was so undependable that he made j a habit of borrowing his friends' rackets, taking lessons, practicing against a wall when the trick deserted him. Two of his uncles are Watson Washburn...
...political opponents, but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. -HERBERT HOOVER. When Calvin Coolidge quit the White House amid U. S. plaudits he left many a Briton sorely vexed and honestly uneasy lest the U. S. and the Empire might soon "compete in armament as political oppo-nents." Of course no one feared actual War. But the Coolidge Naval Limitation Conference had broken down (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927); and Congress had passed what the British press called a Big Navy bill (TIME, Feb. 20, 1928). Therefore last week millions of Britons of every party-Labor, Liberal, Conservative...