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...some name of similar character. If this is done, it means that henceforth there will be two open claimants of Chinese sovereignty: Chiang Kai-shek's Government, recognized by the outside world, and a Communist state, governing 80 million people and controlling an army of 600,000. Settlement of China's internal differences by peaceful means would become highly unlikely...
...Chinese people generally are tolerant with regard to the Communist question. The Government's policy to employ political means to secure a peaceful settlement has been consistent. The policy will eventually succeed because it is in line with the good sense of the people." There will be no civil war in China, the Generalissimo added, so long as he is that nation's leader...
...Indians themselves feel no such inhibitions. Most ferocious are the Chavantes, a tribe of husky, dark men who hold a fertile area directly in the path of projected settlement. They are marvelous shots with arrows, but - for reasons believed to be connected with their religion - they prefer to mash the heads of palefaces with heavy, triangular clubs. Airplanes apparently have no religious significance. When an airplane recently flew over a Chavante village, the Indians neatly riddled it with arrows...
...soft talk was heard in Quito. Ecuadoran resentment against the U.S. had simmered since the Rio Conference of 1942, when the U.S. seemed to favor big Peru in the settlement of its 112-year-old boundary dispute with little Ecuador. Last week the resentment boiled over. There were cries of "Yankee imperialism." The Assembly met in secret session, issued a blast in the press condemning the Peruvian boundary settlement. It inferentially warned its Washington representatives not to give away any more Ecuadoran territory. The nation had already lost altogether too much...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, longtime mayor and boss of Chicago, who died last March leaving some $2,000,000 in safe deposit boxes but no will (TIME, April 10), made news again when $250,000 of the money changed hands in an out-of-court settlement. The quarter-million went to his former secretary-nurse, Ethabelle Green, who had sued for half the estate, claiming that Big Bill promised it to her in return for the "care and affection" she bestowed upon him "as a daughter" for twelve years before his death...