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...Tokyo conditions have long been dismal. All movies and theaters (except the ancient Kabuki plays) are closed. Rationing is strict, and there is little for sale. Night workers, miners and Navy personnel are permitted to buy vitamins. A bottle of about 300 pills is sold to authorized people for about 40?. Health conditions are wretched. All diseases of malnutrition (like beriberi) are rampant. The tuberculosis rate has risen steeply. Malaria is a scourge, probably because of water-filled bomb craters in which mosquitoes breed and because of infected veterans returning from the South Pacific. Typhoid is widespread, probably because...
Peace with Justice. Vandenberg spoke the next day. Again the gallery was crowded, and once again Lord Halifax sat in the front row, listening intently. Vandenberg was the man who had once led some Republicans in the ways of strict isolation...
...large portrait of Winston Churchill, which has long decorated the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Manhattan office, was discreetly out of sight last week. Abroad no less than at home, as Britain's general election campaign roared down the home stretch, the BBC maintained its traditional policy of strict political neutrality...
...Admiral Arthur W. Radford, a veteran carrier admiral, told correspondents on his Pacific flagship just that. Carriers are no longer needed, he said, to clear the way for amphibious thrusts. He added: "Our job now is to keep our own lines of sea communication open and to assure the strict blockade of Japan...
...same time the Ministries of the Interior and Social Affairs cracked down on the press. New, strict regulations forbade Chinese newspapermen to write anything against the interest of the nation, required all Chinese newspapermen to join Chinese press associations, which are supervised by local representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The press associations must adopt resolutions to spread national policies and the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles: Nationalism, Democracy, People's Livelihood...