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...head was still on his corpse. Slim as the incident was, it served Italy as an excuse for reminding Greece of Albanian claims on an unspecified part of the ancient Greek province of Epirus, a corner of which, Ciamuria, was taken from Albania by Greece in 1914 after the outbreak of World...
...cities. It is patronized mostly by tourists, businessmen with foreign connections, U. S. military and diplomatic attaches, claims that it can teach a student to speak a foreign language passably in about 100 lessons, in as few as ten weeks. Last week Berlitz reported that since war's outbreak last fall, business has boomed. Berlitz schools today have a record enrollment of 11,251, next fortnight will open new branches in three more cities...
...East Indies and Asia, attended the decennial meeting of the International Missionary Council at Madras (TIME, Dec. 26, 1938). That busman's holiday stirred up notions which thoughtful Theologian Horton had long pondered in his heart. A summer's meditations and World War II's outbreak merely spurred...
...measure to forestall Allied aggression. Then he launched into a step-by-step review of Germany's victorious campaigns, heaping praise on his fighters, some of whom had just paraded into Berlin, on triumphant leave. He lauded his Italian ally. Germany is now stronger even than at the outbreak of war, he boasted, and Russo-German relations have been firmly established, with their respective spheres of influence clearly defined...
...higher than burly, tousled, tough-tongued, 39-year-old Carroll Duard Alcott, who broadcasts thrice daily from Shanghai bold news & views on matters Asiatic. A veteran American newshawk from Des Moines, who has covered a China beat for the past 13 years, Alcott took to the air at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Tokyo has lost face almost every time he has opened his mouth. Last week he was one of the six Americans whom Japan's puppet Chinese Government "ordered" expelled from China. Last week, in a bulletproof vest that fitted snugly around...