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When
their fatal condition, whatever it was, completed its course. Still it
seemed always to happen in the dark of the night or in the dark of the
year.
He heard someone whistling.
He turned and saw two young residents passing the doorway. One of them
was
whistling, he was whistling a popular tune that the doctor had heard on
the radio. He couldn't remember what program he had heard it on.
Possibly
the program was The Kate Smith Show, or Your Hit Parade. The tune was
very
catchy even though the words were in some language that eluded Dr.
Dustin's ear. The song was called "Bei Mir bist du Sch├╢n."

Three thousand miles away, the Spanish were engaged in a confusing
civil
war. The old king had abdicated years before and a republic had been
proclaimed. But after the direction of the new government became clear,
a
colonel serving in the Spanish colonial forces in Africa returned with
his
troops -- largely Berbers and Rifs -- to change things.
He would overthrow the republic. He would end the nonsense of
democracy,
atheism, lewdness that the republic tolerated. He would restore
discipline, piety, modesty. He would reinstitute the monarchy.
At the moment it appeared that the Republican forces were winning. They
had just recaptured the cities of Trijuque and Guadalajara. They had
taken
rebel prisoners. These included Spanish monarchists. They included
African
troops as well. Strangely, some of the prisoners spoke only Italian.
They
said they were volunteers. They said they had been ordered to
volunteer.
And they always obeyed their orders.

In China, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army were having easy going.
 Their opposition was weak. The Chinese were divided.
They had been engaged in a civil war. It was not much like the one in
Spain. It had been going on much longer. It had begun with the death of
President Sun Yat-sen in 1924. The Japanese were not the only foreign
power to intervene in China.
Germany had owned trading concessions in China until the Treaty of
Versailles ended them. Germany was burgeoning now and had ambitions to
regain her lost privileges.
Other countries had felt their interests threatened by the Chinese
civil
war. England had sent troops. France had used her influence. France was