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3) Britain, no ally of the Czechs is, however, a customer of the Brno factory which manufactures the type of machine guns in question, the "Bren," light as an automatic rifle with unequaled freedom from jamming. The British Army recently adopted the Bren gun, planning to import the patterns and...
Hard Lines. George Earle is not just a politician with an eye on the main chance, nor is he just a puppet of either the Democratic machine or Labor. To swing to the liberal wing of politics, a son of wealth has to be endowed with a considerable fund of...
Big-boned, eagle-bald William Cameron Forbes was over 60 and paunchy when he astonished Peiping's hard-riding legation set one day in 1931 by climbing on a Mongolian pony and playing a fast game of polo. As U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Forbes displayed no less...
On the third day they reviewed the midshipmen at Annapolis (21 guns). The Governor-General attended a luncheon given by British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay (while Lady Tweedsmuir was the luncheon guest of Madam Secretary Perkins), went to the Capitol, heard some of Vice President Garner's most risible...
Unfortunately Denmark intimated rather strongly to the State Department that it did not want another woman minister. However, with W. Forbes Morgan, Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and Senate Leader Joseph T. Robinson as her sponsors, Mrs. Harriman's cause was in good hands. Norway, the first nation...