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...friends of Stalin are W. A. Harriman & Co. who obtained a 22-year Russian manganese concession in 1925 but gave it up at a loss after three years, because the Soviet Government resorted to "petty abuses," imposed "impossible conditions." Today the Anglo-U. S. concessionaires of the Lena Gold Fields claim that they are being forced out by means equally "unfair...
...International Education, reveals that the number of foreign students studying in this country has more than doubled during the past ten years. The great influx of foreign students which commenced shortly after the World War has been most marked by the doubling of the numbers from the countries of Anglo-Saxon civilization...
Italy, together with Germany and France, sends the largest numbers to America. Canada sends 1200 of the 1700 students from Anglo-Saxon lands. China is the great donor of Eastern students, and sends about 1250 of them to this country every year. The figures from China have varied very little while the changes in ratio were taking place in the other nations...
...nitrogen power-Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.-will not take part in this effort at world rationalization, another U. S. group is vitally concerned. A huge investment in Chilean nitrates, amounting to perhaps 35% of the industry, is credited to the Brothers Guggenheim. Of their two companies, the Anglo-Chilean Consolidated is the larger, its Maria Elena works alone having a 600,000-ton capacity. In the new holding company, some persons now see the Guggenheim interest dominant. Thus from the offices of Guggenheim Bros., at No. 120 Broadway, may come direction of the last battle to save Chile...
...which Mrs. Hughes has mapped out her book will not please all her readers. Her idea is to approach England as a background for American history and common Anglo-American traditions. Possibly this is a good scheme, but "America's England" is too obvious in intent. This reviewer would have preferred to have Mrs. Hughes write about England simply because it is England. Accordingly, such chapters as "Georgia and Oglethorpe" are annoying. Nevertheless, on the whole, "America's England" is uncommonly good reading because Mrs. Hughes knows the high roads and the by roads of her native land...