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...reluctantly, his five-year plan to "reeducate" Formosa. The chief results of his 19 months as governor general had been riots and rebellion by Formosans who detested Chen's grafting monopolies, Chen's monopoly police, and Chen himself (TIME, April 7). Last week, Nanking reached across Formosa Strait and bounced Governor Chen...
...Italy are enjoying the last weeks of liberty to proclaim their faith with rights more or less equal to Roman Catholicism's. This spring, barring some development not now foreseen in Rome, a new postFascist constitution will be approved which will put Italian Protestantism back into the same strait-jacket that Mussolini kept...
Before the Navy gives way to the Antarctic winter, mapping planes may try to find out if Antarctica is really a single continent. Two deep indentations, the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea, poke toward one another through its frozen heart. Are the seas connected by a strait choked with eternal ice? This, says Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle...
Paralyzed but undaunted, the Watch and Ward is planning to plug up the loophole in Boston's moral strait-jacket by introducing legislation restraining the newspapers. The Hearst syndicate counters neatly by a campaign against obscene literature to prove that it is on the right side. For this sop they are told to "clean their own house" and the battle goes merrily on while the newspapers' circulation climbs. Whatever the reason for the inability of sober-minded Boston to cope with the greatest lack in its society, the opposing factions seem to have split the pie. Bostonians now get murder...
...Even the strait-laced BBC has its wild & woolly moments. The woolliest: 6:45 every week night, when British youngsters gasp at the well-planned perils of Dick Barton, Special Agent, hero of BBC's only nonstop thriller.* Every night, just as death's door opens, time's up. "What will Dick do? Listen in tomorrow night...