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These tidings so distressed Prime Minister MacDonald in Scotland last week that he broke off his vacation at Lossie-mouth and flew 540 mi. to London, alighting at dawn to hurry to the Foreign Office. After all it was the MacDonald Government which withdrew the British mandate over Irak last year (TIME, Oct. 17), entertained King Feisal in London during the past June season. When King Feisal was in London fullest royal honors were paid to the "new nationhood" of Irak by Christian King George V who feted his royal Mohammedan guest at Buckingham Palace. With Assyrians being massacred last...
...dead of night, under heavy police escort, the five Pullmans threaded their rumbly way through mazy miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey City and at dawn the sleeping President was rolling through Washington, on across the Potomac and down a Southern Ry. branch line to the Virginia town of Harrisonburg. There, after breakfast, he detrained, climbed into an open car with Secretary of the Interior Ickes and set out to have his first look at some Civilian...
...thousands jammed the yards. "Get those cigarets away!" shouted Commander Settle, who had pulled the ripcord to empty the bag of hydrogen. Except for a dent in the gondola the balloon and instruments were intact. Sadly Commander Settle explained the fiasco: planning to hang at 5,000 ft. until dawn, he had pulled his gas escape valve. The valve stuck open. Then it was recalled that during the last-minute fanfare the valve had been opened & closed several times while those near the balloon listened for escaping gas. Commander Settle later admitted that he was not quite positive the valve...
...smoke in anticipation of the long run past weary towns, isolated farm-houses pallid in the moonlight, black water sleeping in the dim aisles of forests, down through Connecticut, past exclusive suburbs, through Harlem tenaments under Park Avenue into the awakening city, cool in the gray and pink of dawn...
...night before the Vagabond had lived again in Attica through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...