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April 28, 1938

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JAPAN IS TROUBLED ON COURSE IN WAR; LEADERS ARE SPLIT; Resistance of Chinese Poses Problem of Widening Drive or Conserving Gains CIVILIANS ARE RESTLESS I MAC They Want a More Vigorous Effort, but Military Turns Cautious in View of Russia Active Advance Halted JAPAN IS TROUBLED ON COURSE IN WAR Cabinet Spurs Military Russia Is Greater Fear Japan Ponders Dilemma

By Hugh Byaswireless To the New York Times

Visitors to Japan are surprised by the peaceful atmosphere they find. If they were about the city in the early hours they might meet a string of ambulances crawling from railroad station to hospital with the badly wounded, or in the suburbs at any hour they might see small procession escorting to some temple graveyard a white box with the ashes of a soldier.

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Madge Sinclair

1938Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (died 1995)[โ€ ]

Madge Dorita Sinclair CD was a Jamaican actress best known for her roles in Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), Convoy (1978), Coming to America (1988), Trapper John, M.D. (1980โ€“1986), and the ABC TV miniseries Roots (1977). Sinclair also voiced the character of Sarabi, Mufasa's mate and Simba's mother, in the Disney animated feature film The Lion King (1994). A five-time Emmy Award nominee, Sinclair won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as "Empress" Josephine in Gabriel's Fire in 1991.