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Paris palpitated with reports last week that in French North Africa the Arabs were "rising" against the Jews. Instanter Jewish Premier Léon Blum rushed home from Geneva and summoned to Paris by plane Governor General of Algeria Georges Le Beau. Consternation increased as Minister of Interior Roger Salengro confided to reporters that he feared "a veritable war of religions is breaking out in North Africa...
Best part of Two Worlds deals with China. Lester Cohen had wanted to find out something definite about the Chinese Soviets in the interior, had even contemplated trying to visit them. But after he had lived in Shanghai, Nanking, Soochow, Peiping, met an anti-Japanese volunteer who used a cigaret tin for a gas mask, seen "bandit-artists" being led off to jail because their pictures ran counter to government decrees, been offered a Chinese virgin for $17, his desire to learn more about the Chinese revolutionists left him. Day after day he thought he could see the social fabric...
...nevertheless for Jesse Isidor Straus the Cabinet soon did more than it was doing for Paris department-store owners whose premises were in the third week of a "stay-in-strike." Over to the American Hospital and down into its basement hurried Minister of Interior Roger Salen-gro to "personally intervene." By nightfall he had got the strikers to abandon their more fantastic demands, persuaded the American Hospital to accept the rest, including higher pay, shorter hours...
...Minister of the Interior, 5 Economic Dictator...
Sued. The City of Chicago; by John Ickes, 63, brother of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; for $31,125 in salary, $9,337 in interest, $11,000 in raises, accrued between 1926 and 1932 during which period he was removed from his job as chief clerk of the City's special assessment division for "political reasons...