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...General Johnson's greatest services to the President was as a buffer for criticism. Even as he was bowing out of the picture, his enemies-and he had many -took many a resentful parting shot. "It ought to have happened nine months ago!" cried North Dakota's Senator Nye, who had quarreled with the General about NRA hardships on small businessmen. "Military man that he was," grumbled old Clarence Darrow, whose three NRA reports marked the start of the reorganization movement, "he went at it like an Army mule driver and when he reached...
...embroiled in a war. Russia can't afford to fight but Japan will force her to do so because she wants to safeguard her position in Manchuria. It is hard to tell what the objectives of such a struggle would be. Japan may be trying to set up a buffer state in Eastern Siberia. This would be difficult, because the population of this state would be almost entirely Russian...
...officers of the University who come into daily contact with the News Office, but to all those who value Harvard's reputation in the public eye. Mr. Nichols was the first of a long line of publicity directors to conceive of his position as something more than a buffer to a supersensitive group of officials in University Hall. The value to the University of having a man handle its publicity who enjoys the confidence of the organs through which that publicity is disseminated, is too obvious to need emphasis. Mr. Nichols won that confidence in the face of a natural...
...enough, though Author Galsworthy had the serial habit too strongly not to leave a few threads dangling. Better than its two predecessors (Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness), it should remind even impatient critics of Galsworthy that, in the words of one of his characters, "he may be an old buffer, but he's a nice...
...China. He made his old suggestion of a ten-mile neutral zone just south of the Wall to be closed to troops of both sides. Nakayama was cold to the /.one idea which would tie up Japan's long-range hope of cutting out of China an independent "buffer state"' between China and Manchukuo. He asked Sir Miles where was a Chinese with sufficient authority to negotiate for China. Sir Miles named the Chinese Foreign Minister Dr. Lo Wen-kan. Then he went to see Dr. Lo. To all this the Japanese Foreign Office remained lukewarm. It announced...