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Last week speed cost England dearly. Late one night, a few days after his return from Kut, where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took...
With the Cabinet split on a fundamental issue, with more newspapers than ever striking out against the Government, with more M. P.s than ever distrustful of British official policy, there were also more rumors than ever of a change in the Government itself. Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden still talked of a national Cabinet. Mr. Chamberlain was represented as wanting to have a Laborite in the Government, but the Labor Party wanted no part of the Prime Minister...
...British newsman has since elaborated the original Cockburn details, spreading the story that a group of rich, pro-Fascist Conservatives were meeting and regularly plotting at Cliveden, country estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Among the reported Cliveden coups were the political downfall of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the trip of Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to Berlin, the sending of Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia, engaging Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to "spy" on Soviet and German air power, the Munich Pact...
...EAST OF EDEN-I. J. Singer-Knopf...
...East of Eden, the best that can be said is that its earlier chapters compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years...