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...tightest little tyranny in the Caribbean Sea, through a heavy fog of censorship, fortnight ago leaked news of trouble in the Dominican Republic. The brisk little tyrant, Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, had planned a year and a half vacation in the U. S. and Europe, his first trip off his island, presumably in company with his lush mistress, Donna Maria. Trujillo planned to stop in Washington to renew the 17-month moratorium on the $16,000,000 debt the Republic owes U. S. bondholders. Meanwhile his Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, was doing the preliminary spadework...
...everything set for five Chinese provinces to secede as a unit from the Nanking Government and set themselves up as "autonomous" under the muzzles of Japanese guns. Abruptly this scheme was spoiled by the Japanese Ambassador to China, grinning Mr. Akira Ariyoshi, who had a three-hour conversation with brisk little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after which the Chinese satraps of the five provinces figuratively thumbed their noses at General Doihara. When, with boiling anger, the General sputtered in Peiping at a local Chinese commander, hurling threats which would ordinarily have made him grovel, Chinese General Hsiao Chengying said with...
Thereupon stock traders, freed from fear of the Federal Reserve Board, whooped gladly and put on a brisk weekend rally. Headlined the New York Times: WASHINGTON WILL NOT APPLY BRAKES TO BOOM IN STOCKS; ECCLES CALLS IT HEALTHFUL. Said one smart broker, reading Governor Eccles' statement: "Best market letter in years!" Traders drew only one moral: the Administration's "breathing spell" for business is to be followed by a breathing spell for the Stock Exchange...
...brisk grey-haired zealot is Joseph Lewis, 46, onetime shirtmaker who calls himself "The Enemy of God." As president of the Freethinkers of America, Inc. (30,000 members at $1 a year), Mr. Lewis does a thriving business in anti-religious books and sex manuals, busies himself at all times waging guerrilla warfare against the churches of his Enemy. Legalistically Freethinker Lewis hardly ever wins a battle. In the New York courts where he does most of his fighting, the judges are likely to be good Roman Catholics or devout Jews. Last week the Enemy of God was again trying...
China's slim, brisk Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week got the ominous news that four Japanese major generals were closeted in Dairen to draw up a "new policy" toward China. Unless Chiang's Nationalist Kuomintang Party starts acting as if it were really pro-Japanese, Japan, according to the four major generals, will feel obliged to detach China's five rich northern provinces from Nanking's rule, set up puppet governors and collect revenues...