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Everyone knew the Chancellor would use this weapon rather than risk a vote of no confidence (which would force his Cabinet to resign). But most Deputies expected the new Reichstag to live at least long enough for Herr von Papen to explain his scheme of lifting Germany by her own bootstraps out of Depression, his famed "One Year Plan.* Instead, before the Chancellor could start explaining, up popped Communist Deputy Ernst Torgler, shouting denunciation of President von Hindenburg for signing a decree earlier in the week which made the One Year Plan...
Last week gentle, white-haired Viscount Kentaro Kaneko, Harvard 1878, Privy Councilor of Japan, came forward with an articlee in Contemporary Japan to explain that he was the person to whom President Roosevelt had suggested a Japanese Monroe Doctrine. The Viscount said it had occurred during a rocking chair conversation at Sagamore Hill in 1905 while Russian and Japanese delegates were negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War. He explained that it has never before been published because he had promised President Roosevelt not to do so while the latter remained in office or afterward except...
...Russell and John William Navin Sullivan. Laymen curious about what science is up to can turn with reasonable hopefulness to Russell's The A B C of Atoms, Sullivan's Three Men Discuss Relativity. In this brief (220-page), disarming autobiography, Journalist Sullivan, calling himself Julian Shaughnessy, explains about himself with the same simple sincerity he uses to explain Bach or Bohr. Realistic, humble, Sullivan calls popular works on science "one of the most unprofitable of all forms of reading," admits ''it seems that I am a man without any marked talents." He wrote his autobiography...
...prove by them that the Tammany investigation was a G. O. P. plot inspired from Washington to abort the Roosevelt and Smith presidential candidacies. How such a plot, even if proved, would clear Mayor Walker of the charges and evidence against him Mr. Curtin did not attempt to explain. The inference was that if Governor Roosevelt removed the Mayor he would somehow be in political cahoots with President Hoover...
...that his tongue could wag undisturbed. His entrances were timed strategically: just as a gathering was preparing to break up Proust would enter, set the room abuzz with his rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain the kiss he gave her, in the very middle of the ball?" "Overwhelmingly" gentle in voice, elaborately formal in manner, Proust smiled continually, gazed fondly at society from brilliant black eyes under drooping eyelids and "a Saracen's beak." Extravagant, generous?his tips were fantastic?he dressed like the dandy...