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...case in point: a smallpox outbreak in Seattle (TIME, April 8), touched off by a soldier just back from Japan. Last week San Francisco's Director of Public Health, Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, cried out that the danger of airborne epidemics is real and imminent...
...area of the Far Eastern mainland. Not only had they failed to withdraw on Feb. 1, as they had promised, but there were reports that the Red Army was rebuilding Manchurian installations which it had dismantled in preparation for departure. The Red Army's presence encouraged a new outbreak of Chinese Communist skirmishes with Kuomintang troops in Manchuria...
Joseph Clark Grew '02, former Assistant Secretary of State and United States Ambassador to Japan from 1932 until the outbreak of war, will speak at the Faculty Club's annual dinner on Tuesday February 26. This meeting will be open only to members and their families. Of one of Grew's last official visits to the University, in May, 1948, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law by President Conant...
Rumpled Cordiality. The cards were put face up. Curtly but calmly Vishinsky spoke of "the new outbreak of Fascist terror" in Greece and the use of British troops there as "a danger to peace and security." As mild in manner, Bevin was even rougher in words. In Greece, he said, Britain "could have done as was done in Rumania by Mr. Vishinsky-put in a minority government. . . . The danger to the peace of the world has been the incessant propaganda from Moscow against the British Commonwealth and the incessant utilization of the Communist Parties in every country in the world...
...America's Navy in World War II, Correspondent Gilbert Cant reported the achievements of the U.S. Navy from the outbreak of war to the fall of Guadalcanal. The Great Pacific Victory completes the trilogy with an able, authoritative account of the up-from-the-sawdust resurgence of U.S. power in the war against Japan...