Let $E$ be a Banach space which is weakly sequentially complete (i.e. each weak Cauchy sequence converges weakly). Must $E^{**}$ be weakly sequentially complete either? Of course, this question is interesting only for non-reflexive spaces.
Bidual of a WSC space
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This is not true.
I reproduce Remark 3. on page 101 (in the section on Banach lattices) of Lindenstrauss-Tzafriri (in the old Springer Lecture Notes 338 edition):
Reference [80] is:
William B. Johnson, A complementary universal conjugate Banach space and its relation to the approximation problem, Israel Journal of Mathematics 13(3-4) (1972), 301–310.
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1Tha$n$ks, glad you liked it, but credit is fully due to Li$n$de$n$strauss-Tzafriri and Johnson :) – 2011-11-01