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...three years on Success, was glad to hear it had been chosen by the Literary Guild for November, helped his wife into his U. S. motor, set out for a tour of warmer countries, will not be back for more than a year. Other books: The Ugly Duchess, Two Anglo-Saxon Plays...
...cable Carol II thanked George V for the courtesy visit in Rumanian waters of a British cruiser and two destroyers. In reply the King-Emperor said nothing but said it with marked cordiality?happy omen of the new, better Anglo-Rumanian entente now forming...
...most U. S. collegians Oxford is a distant academic valhalla of stately ancient buildings where brilliant young men with mellifluent, clipped speech spend long days of leisure mixed with archaic studies; a temple of wit & learning, the bright fane of Anglo-Saxon civilization. Seldom does one of its paragons emerge actually to be seen and heard, but last week Princeton undergraduates had the privilege of observing and listening to the genuine Oxford article?pink-&-white, good-looking Randolph Churchill, 19, son of England's famed and effervescent Statesman Winston Churchill, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Nothing could have pleased Mr. Hearst more than the episode which lay behind that triumphant return?his expulsion from France for inflammatory eloquence in Germany and because his henchman had filched a secret document pertaining to a projected Anglo-French naval agreement in 1928 (TIME, Oct. 22, 1928). That episode had put him where he loves to be, on the All-American defensive. It had given him an opening for a brilliantly sarcastic reply to France which he released as soon as he landed in England. It had made it seem appropriate for a swarm of disabled War veterans...
...latitude of Australia's northernmost tip. Some of the islands, including Upolu (on which Robert Louis Stevenson died), were once a German, have been since the War a New Zealand mandate. The eastern group-Tutuila, Aunuu, Ofu, Olosega, Tau and Rose-belong to the U. S. by an Anglo-German treaty of 1900. And in 1925 the U. S. annexed tiny Swain's Island. Total U. S. Samoa comprises 60 sq. mi., 8,763 population. It is valuable for a rich output of copra, also for Tutuila's beautiful harbor Pago Pago (pronounced "pango-pango"), good naval...