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MONDAY, JANUARY 26. 1944._
DOWN TO FACTS
Speaking in Sudbury, Ont., recently,
Hon. J. L. Ralston, Minister of Defence,
did not mince words when outlining the!
military situation.
“We must realize,” he declared, “that
more than half the area captured by the
Axis in the last three years is still in
conquered territory;
“That there is not much evidence that
German military power has decreased;
“That there is no sign that the Japan
ese troops have lost any of their willing
ness to fight and die;
That the battles now being waged in
Italy are only on the southern fringe of
Europe;
“That the continent of Europe still has
to be re-taken;
“That whereas 26 years ago we were
well inside Europe and held more than!
three-fourths of France and a consider-;
able part of Belgium,. now we haven’t j
even a toehold across the Channel;
“That the superb fighting of Russia
has still to be matched;
“That China must be liberated and
Hong Kong avenged;
“That Burma, the Malay Peninsula;
and Singapore and the Philippines must:
be regained and the Southwest Pacific;
cleared.”
So there it is, and put plainly indeed, j
It should have a sobering effect on those |
who, somehow', are unable to get away!
from the impression that the war is all,
but won. and the duty of the hour is to:
decide how to punish the Nazi leaders.
—(Alaska Weekly).
ANOTHER CONFIRMATION
Announcement that United Airlines
will shortly be maintaining regular
schedules to Alaska is one more confirm
ation of the importance of the Territory
in the age of air and an additional basis
for the optimism with which those close
to the Alaskan scene have regarded the
Territory’s future.
In a recent discussion of Alaskan poli
tics Marquis Childs, in his “Washington
Calling” column, digresses long enough
to say: ,v ‘ ' :
“Incidentally, if you still think of Alas
ka as a far-off place, you’ll have to move
into the air age. „ By slow Army trans
port it’s only 15 to 16 hours from Chi
jcago to Fairbanks. By fast plane after
'the war, the time will be cut to eight or
inine hours.
“If Alaska were a state, it would take
far less time to reach Washington by
olane than it took the Virginia delega
ion to come across muddy roads to those
early sessions of Congress. After the
var a week’s fishing or hunting trip in.
Alaska will be perfectly feasible.”
Marquis Childs is right and he might
have added that Fairbanks will be but
a few hours from any of the other capi
tals of the world since its position as a
world air center happens to be a geo
graphical fact rather than a chamber of
commerce assertion.—(Alaska Weekly),
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GOLD FOR FOREIGN
RAW MATERIAL ,,T:.
Frederick E. Hasler, chairman of the
Continental Bank and Trust Company,
and president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the State of. New York, has had
a brainstorm to supplement the Batt
Clayton proposals of heavy imports of
raw materials in the post-war period in
exchange for manufactured goods. Has
ler proposes that America’s stored gold
be exchanged for raw material*; pro
duced abroad.
The Batt proposal naturally has the
support of manufacturers who care lit
tle what happens to the raw-material
states as long as they can see some fu
ture business. But this new plan cuts
out the manufacturers, too, as those for
eign producers who are paid in Ameri
can dollars at $35 an ounce would be
able to purchase finished goods else
where to better advantage at the world
orice of gold if it continues to average
around $70.—(Mining Journal).
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LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
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, By JOHN SELBY
‘'FROSSIA". by E. M. Aimedin
gcn (Harcourt, Brace; S2.59).
Somebody, I presume the pub-;
Usher, writes that E. M. Aimed-;
ingen's “Frossia" is a novel in,'
the great Russian tradition. This
is all right, as far as it goes, but
many will get from it a picture
of a vastly long, absurdly intro
spective, very vague book imi
tating at a distance “The Broth
ers Karamazov” or “War and
Peace”. The book is not too long,
and it is writ'en in the aforesaid
tradition only because it is a nov- i
el about Russia by a Russian.
“Frossia” is just a good new nov-1
el.
Miss Almedingen sets the book
in the madhouse which was Pet- i
rograd after the Revolution. Those
were the days when the forceps
were used to bring a new govern
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ment Into the world, and as
everybody knows, the birth was
difficult. Up to now I can think
of no novel about these events
which confines itself to the move
ment of characters within the ac
tual scenes—they have all been
“proletarian” novels, or the re
verse. “Frossia” make its effect
because it is flatly honest. Peo
ple were murdered and went hun
gry, aristocrats and merchant
princes were sometimes stupid, as
was the proletariat sometimes.
But they lived, somehow, even
when the bread was baked of a
little rye and a lot of straw. Fros
sia was the product of marriage
by a wealthy merchant into the
nobility. When the crash came,
Frossia’s family took poison one
jump ahead of the firing squad,
but Frossia wanted to live and
was willing to try to understand
the revolution and its people. She
escaped from Kiev to Petrograd,
she found that most of the survi
vors from her old life were liv
ing on salvaged jewels in a men
tal vacuum, and she got a job.
Frossia’s job was not much, and
not all the people she worked
with and for were “right”. But,
she did come to a kind of under-1
sanding, and this was that her
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place lay with Russia. She not
. only was willing to merge her
' self and her talents with the Rus
sian future. It was a right and a
privilege she claimed.
Miss Almedingen has surround
ed her Frossia with wonderfully
real people, and surrounded these
with Russia itself. It is a book
to read slowly, with care.
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Chow Mein
i 5 onions
2 tablespoons fat
2 cups chicken
1 cup water or chicken stock
1 bunch celery
1 pound spinach, cut up
1 pound sprouted beans
Cut up onions, fry in bacon fat
or vegetable oil until light golden
brown. Add chicken, boned and
cut up. It may be cooked or raw.
Cook for 10 minutes if chicken is
raw or 5 minutes if chicken is
cooked. Add a cup of water and
celery cut up in cubes. Cook 10
minutes more. Add spinach and
bean sprouts, washed of skins.
Cook about 9 minuses longer, so
, that spinach and beans retain their
crispness. Serve with soy sauce.
Viennese Dessert
6 slices stale bread
2 egg yolks
1-2 cup margarine
1 cup milk
1-2 water
2 egg whites
2 cups stewed fruit
Soak bread in wa'er. Cream egg
yolks with margarine. Add milk.
Squeeze braed dry and combine
with first mixture. Add stiffly
beaten egg whies. Grease an
oven-proof baking dish. Pour in
a layer of mixture, then a layer
of stewed fruit. Continue 4his un
til all is used up, making layer
of egg-bread mixture on top
Bake at 375 degrees one-half
hour.
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While there he was asked to take
five-year-old Mar'in Dalilook to
the Nome hospital. Martin had
been injured by falling from a
truck.
The mission plane has served in
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