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In 1921 there was another dreadful hunger. This time over 20,000,000 peasants came to the verge of starvation. Again the U.S. was touched and helped hard. Correspondent Walter Duranty wrote: "Imagine yourself standing at the corner of a dusty street. . . . The houses are mostly low wooden structures with...
The alert let go its giant banshee wail-"Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo!"-a dreadful, penetrating warble, like no other sound on earth. A boy's voice said: "Don't worry, sis, I'll look after you. We'll get in the air-raid shelter just...
> "I admit the question presents terrific difficulties. I realize it demands courage. I believe you have that courage. ... I recommend the words of George Washington to the members of the Constitutional Convention. As you know, the delegates to that Convention originally were supposed merely to patch up the Articles of...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love...
Of such kidney was the ruler of Persia when Colonel Reza Khan took over. The treasury was empty, the Army little more than an armed rabble. Brigandage and tribal disaffection were rampant. The country's roads were hardly better than camel tracks, and so dreadful was transportation that fields...