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...actresses (including Fredric March, Helen Hayes, Tallulah Bankhead) last week penned a frightened petition to Actors' Equity, deplored ". . . a wave of crime known as 'muggings,' " asked for police protection. The petition complained: "[Mugging] is not only affecting the safety of the citizen, but constitutes a serious threat to the theatrical business...
...Threat? A dribble of hungry, ragged, ill-armed Chungking soldiers has trickled into the Nanking camp. The Jap last week claimed the desertion of 70,000 Free Chinese troops on the Honan front, about 400 miles northeast of this week's fierce battle for the Yangtze River gorges (see p. 33). The Chiang Government hotly denied it. Wang's army is not a trustworthy army; despite purges, it is honeycombed with Chiang sympathizers. But it has relieved regular Jap units of garrison duty, helped Tokyo meet a serious manpower shortage, may some day take the field against Chiang...
...progress of puppetry is not yet a dire threat to Free China. The Jap still clings to his ancient arrogance; to the bulk of China's masses he is still a "monkey thief." But the danger is serious...
...public policy. . . . We will accomplish in the shop what the law intended we should be able to accomplish in the court." Added the union's lawyer, Walter Nelson: "If employers bolstered by the decision flout the union's demands, there will be trouble." This sounded like the threat of a strike: the first strike of organized foremen in U.S. history...
...airmen believe that such rights should be unrestricted. They see in com plete freedom of the air a great threat to weak countries, through surprise bombing raids over well-scouted territory. But they admit no reason why the nations cannot agree upon limited rights to foreign air lines which will tie the world closer than it has ever been before in trade, and there fore in understanding...