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Edward of Wales and his youngest brother, Prince George, ended their official tour of Canada (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and settled down last week at Edward's "E.P." ranch in Pekisko, Alberta, Canada...
...Conqueror" Chiang Kai-shek whose nationalist armies recently swept across one-half of China, (TIME, Sept. 29, 1926 et req.) returned last week, a man abased and fallen, to his home and birthplace, the little village of Fenghwa, 100 miles south of Shanghai...
...Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee" to the same tune as "God Save the King." He reminds England that President Wilson said "too proud to fight" to Mexico, not Europe...
British "Red Scare" (TIME, May 23, et seq.). Few disinterested persons will deny that both of these "perils" are proving very useful to the governments concerned, and are being kept alive for reasons of internal politics. Naturally, then M. Stalin made a great many charges last week against the British Government which seemed to most Anglo-Saxons mere balderdash. For example, Dictator Stalin declared flatly: "The British Government is financing terrorist spies who commit arson and murder throughout the Soviet Union...
...merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...