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Sirs: . . . Anent the story of the Washington peanut vendor, it is the perfect publicity story. If said story was saved during election campaign, it could net candidate using it 100,000 votes throughout the country. The story is the acme of a pressagent's glorious triumph-pathos, human interest, and the milk of human kindness- also BUNK. The story was obviously concocted to entrench more solidly the President with the ''masses," and of course it brought countless remarks from the gullible as to the kindness of the understanding pilot of the great ship of state. Would TIME...
...traces the life of a peon in the Diaz regime. The rich land owners are cruel, avaricious, and they love to assault innocent poor girls. The peon was miserable; therefore he revolted, and the Mexico of today arrived. Happiness, and an impeccable army, blooming youth, and more army. A glorious consummation...
...scraggly-mustached, ascetic General took charge, Japan's tiger was so restive that petty naval officers assassinated Premier Ki Inukai because they considered him a pacifist (TIME, May 23, 1932). Trusting General Araki, the fighting services who despise and hate all Japanese politicians, then settled down to the glorious tiger work of gobbling up Manchukuo and parts of China proper, not forgetting the Japanese naval clawing at Shanghai. Probably the Araki "ride" saved Japanese parliamentary government from being destroyed by a coup...
Naturally, all the disgruntled factions have seized this as a glorious opportunity for embarrassing the government; for the Royalists, in particular, the present state of affairs is highly comforting, for it affords them a fine chance to express their feelings with great violence. Were the demonstrations limited to more riots, obviously staged by antagonistic elements, they could be dismissed as simply an excited reaction to corruption in high places. There is, however, reason to believe that the dissatisfaction in more than superficial, that, in fact, it shows a collapse of the French belief in parliamentarians and in the Republic...
...editor sitting before his littered desk, flicked his cigaret to the floor, and turning deliberately to his typewriter put his finger on the right Key. He wrote: "Roosevelt has bet the country's last dollar on a single card and if he wins the result will be glorious...