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Last week, with utmost secrecy, behind windows covered with heavy brown paper, His Majesty's High Court of Justice concluded its trials in London's most famous criminal court, the Old Bailey. Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkov heard themselves sentenced as spies. Kent was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Anna Wolkov received ten years. Britons were surprised at the mildness of the sentences, even though one of the culprits was a citizen of a nation with which Britain wants to keep on the best of terms...
...Sometimes readers ask why TIME devotes so much space to the Orient. It is because TIME has always believed that the day would come when an understanding of that area with its billion people, half the population of the earth, might be of the utmost importance to America...
...often encountered lions' nests hidden in tall grass while plowing the wild virgin land, and the angry beasts sent natives and oxen running in all directions. Lions showed the utmost cunning in discovering and outwitting his tricks to prevent them from preying on the domestic animals...
...attractive existence, including the extraction of a tidy income from 10,000 tons of opium sold annually to the population under Government license. They had built European towns with broad, immaculate avenues, spacious buildings, beautiful squares adorned with statues of the French great. Beyond the exclusive French quarter, in utmost squalor and poverty, lived the native population, including a great number of half-castes, products of frequent matings between French officials and Annamite girls...
...believe that defense against foreign aggression requires that we exert ourselves to the utmost to build up our own armed forces and also that we give all possible assistance to those nations who are fighting our battles by defending themselves against aggressors that are our enemies as well as theirs. We believe that developing democracy at home requires a continuous effort to improve the conditions, enlarge the opportunity and elevate the dignity of the masses of the American people...