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...would clearly be premature at this stage for me to commit this Government to any particular course of action...
...honest citizens what Poland's ill-starred Our Life did for crooks. Short while ago in Warsaw police arrested the Russian woman editor and the staff of Our Life, "first professional journal" for thieves, burglars, robbers-an incredible publication which told how to break safes, commit burglaries without leaving fingerprints. Our Life advertisers offered window jimmies and burglary instruction. Police seized the long list of subscribers in Poland and abroad, arrested many in Russia...
...MEYERLING-Auto-biography of "R," a Habsburg Prince, in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier-Lippincott ($3). Diverting, specious story of a man claiming to be the secret son of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who, he maintains, did not commit suicide in 1889 but lived until...
...wiles of solicitors and to the intricacies of Harvard Square. Some of these ten hundred will find the first weekend lonely and speak to themselves of the Harvard "indifference," as well renowned as the name of Columbus. Some will find the Back Bay accent strange. Before, however, you commit yourself or form a prejudice, accept as hearty welcome the advice of those who were once in your position...
Meantime the Soviet Union signed a treaty with China promising that neither would aid an enemy attacking the other. Though this did not commit the Soviet to sending help to China it was a slap in Japan's eye and Japan could not but suspect "secret clauses" which might eventually bring Russia into the war. Entirely bloodless but saddest incident of the week for Japan was the announcement that since the war began she has had to export over $65,000,000 worth of gold. This brought her slender gold reserve down to a still slenderer...