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...vicarious travel in the Far East, 26-year-old Oxonian Fleming first takes us along the outside rim of Red China, along the Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Manchukuo. Fleming is immediately disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual; for it is apparent that...
Tight Britches suffers from an attempt to make it a second Tobacco Road, a sociological study of the hardy and poverty-ridden Anglo-Saxons of North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountain country. So esoteric is the idiom that a glossary is included with the program. "Swivvetty" means nervous; "upscuddle," quarrel; "hippin," diaper; "gaum," disorder; "furriner," any outsider...
James Phinney Baxter 3rd, Associate Professor of History, will spend the next six months in Washington doing research work for his new book on Anglo-American Relations between 1860 and 1870. He has spont the summer in the Canadian Archives doing similar work...
Shortly after Parliament adjourned last week President Runciman's efforts to stimulate Anglo-German trade received a sharp setback. A Lancashire textile delegation sent to Berlin under Sir George Holden with the cooperation of the Board of Trade reported most adversely on German credit. Promptly in Manchester the Empire's leading cotton spinners announced that they will sell no more yarn to Germany, that as a result they must throw out of work at least 10.000 skilled spinning operatives in Lancashire, 40,000 other Britons, directly or indirectly employed in cotton milling...
When this rebuff, wrapped up in courteous Turkish "regrets," was flashed to London the British Government merely instructed Sir Percy to ask for a joint Anglo-Turkish inquiry into the killing of Surgeon Lieut. Robinson. To this the Turkish Government grudgingly agreed, stiffly called this minimum request a "most unusual procedure...