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Twins Dino Grandi and Italo Balbo are no relation to each other but look almost exactly alike, cut their beards identically, wear exactly the same model of starched collar. Every North American knows Foreign Minister Dino Grandi since he called on President Hoover (TIME, Nov. 16, et seq.) Every South American knows Air Minister General Italo Balbo since he led eleven Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes on a flight across the Atlantic from Italy to Brazil (TIME...
...transports landed an unrevealed number of fresh troops at Dairen. Meanwhile in Mukden the Japanese G. H. Q. of General Shigeru Honjo feted a distinguished and most welcome guest. Guest General Jiro Minami started the Japanese push into Manchuria when he was Minister of War (TIME, Oct. 12, et seq.). Last week he offered a quaint description of the outburst of Chinese banditry which followed Japan's overthrow of the Chinese Government of Manchuria at Mukden. "A revolution has overtaken Manchuria." General Minami said. In Tokyo the Japanese Diet met briefly, passed a resolution "in appreciation of the Army...
...hair of premier James Henry Scullin has turned almost pure white this past year, so crushing were his burdens while the State of New South Wales weltered in a series of defaults which the Dominion Treasury had to make good (TIME. April 6, et seq.). Last week young, buoyant Australia kicked Mr. Scullin, who now seems "old" at 55, into the discard. Triumphantly placed in power by a general election which gave his supporters 51 seats out of the Australian Parliament's 75 was "The Honest Man from Tasmania," Joseph Aloysius Lyons...
...Foreign Minister, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, is the Old Fox's son-in-law. He was in Paris last week where as Japanese Ambassador he has stubbornly defended Japan before the League Council (TIME, Oct. 5 et seq.). Recalled by his father-in-law, tiny Mr. Yoshizawa who incessantly puffs enormous black cigars, took a ticket for Moscow where he will talk Manchuria with Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, then hurry across the trans-Siberian Railway to Manchuria and finally to Japan...
...much of a menagerie would a menu keep alive and healthy during an ocean voyage from Buenos Aires to York? Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, generalissimo of an animal-catching expedition to the Matto Grosso Jung Brazil (TIME, June 1 et seq.), found it sufficient for the following, which he landed safely in Manhattan last week