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...student repeated the old Nazi line that war between Russia and the West was inevitable. "Na, ya" another said, "this doesn't get us anywhere. We have to get along somehow even with the Russians." His companions chorused: "Impossible. There are too many of them and they're too strong and the world doesn't recognize what they are. They take everything, our houses, our furniture, our property. If we object we will be done away with. In any case our children will be brought up Bolsheviks...
...villa near Sao Paulo, Brazil, a bitter man sat down and wrote an angry letter to Czechoslovakia's finance minister. Wrote Jan A. Bata (rhymes with got ya), who once controlled Bata Inc. of Zlin, one of the world's largest shoe manufacturers: "What has become of the glorious Czechoslovak enterprise in ten months of national management? . . . What we gathered in 52 . . . years is on the precipice of bankruptcy...
Despite such maneuvers, the Russians still like Clark, respectfully refer to him as the "American Eagle." When Marshal Konev recently presented him with a bird dog puppy, Clark declared he would name it Ya Soglasen (Russian for "I agree"). Konev wanted to know why. "Because," said Clark, "this is a word I use so seldom otherwise...
...making an earnest effort to improve the situation in Shanghai. Wu's program to cut rice prices this week brought the price down in two days from 60,000 to 51,000 dollars a picul at week's end, and resulted in the arrest of" Jen Hsin-ya, section chief of the Shanghai Food Commissioner's Office, on charges of irregularities in the discharge of his duties as administrator of the billion-(Chinese) dollar Government rice loan...
...Hume eventually became president of Hsiang Ya, helped to bring a new kind of medicine to China, also learned that China's ancient medical traditions had "unsuspected values" in terms of human nature and the psychological causes of disease. Medicine, he knows, can be "a builder of bridges between nations and cultures...