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Returning to Tokyo, Lieut.-General Araki wiped from his dreams of conquest Siberia but not Manchuria. He managed to retrieve his reputation by courage during the earthquake. As Chief of the Military Staff College until he was gazetted War Minister last year, he stood upon the supreme rostrum from which to preach (behind locked doors) the subjugation of all Manchuria...
Governor Roosevelt's political comeback after 1920 involved efforts even greater, because their object was less tangible, than his conquest of his lame legs. Years ago Louis McHenry Howe, his friend and adviser, had inoculated him with the White House virus. His election and re-election as Governor reawakened the Presidential fever, which burned with increasing intensity as the months at Albany wore successfully on and Herbert Hoover's prestige sank at Washington. Forgotten now is the fact that two years ago some of Franklin Roosevelt's oldest friends were deploring the evident, consuming degree of ambition...
...Chinese politics everything is indirect. Leaders of the present conservative Nanking Government got their start as revolutionaries in Canton. Openly accepting Russian gold and assisted by Moscow's most effective propagandist. Comrade Michael Borodin, they launched a war of conquest which swept across all China (TIME, Sept. 7, 1925 et seq.). Their innate wisdom caused them to break with Moscow at exactly the right moment. Triumphantly installed at Nanking, they washed their hands of everything Communist, sent Comrade Borodin packing, appealed for recognition by all the Great Powers and gradually obtained...
Senator Glass argued that in the Depression of 1921-22 the U. S. liquidated the War which had no more to do with the current Depression than "the wars of the Phoenicians or the conquest of Gaul by Caesar." Republican administrations, he declared, encouraged an "orgy of stock speculation" and President Coolidge "figuratively jumped into the stockpit and cheered on the gamblers." Billions of dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster...
...bell struck, his hour of freedom was over, and he returned to his tower cell to continue his vast "History of the World" on which he never got further than the Roman conquest of Greece. But the History was not all that came from Raleigh's pen, and so today the Vagabond will go to Sever 11 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor Munn talk on Raleigh's prose works...