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Frankness, a pardonable virtue, seems to be entering the world of diplomatic notes, a field long held by the flowery evasion. First Russia and Japan called each other a liar with an admirable, if startling, baldness. Now comes President Roosevelt's plain answer to a long, decorous request from the President of Haiti that the United States withdraw its fiscal control over that country. While expressing a kindly word for the record of the Haitian government, nonetheless our own F. D. could not find it in his heart to grant this request. And why not? Because, as the Transcript neatly...
Instead, Mr. Bullitt turned up before the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make screaming headlines for days by blurting out his inside opinions of the Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations. Premier Lloyd George dignified these proceedings by calling Mr. Bullitt a "liar," referred contemptuously to "a journey some boys are reported to have made to Russia." When smug Philadelphia friends called him a "Bolshevik"' and when his first wife divorced him in 1923, Bill Bullitt married the widow of John Reed, the U. S. Communist who went through the Russian Revolution, wrote...
...opposition to the Gore regime. Governor Gore said he had never actually requested any undated resignations, accused Dr. Barcelo of circulating the story as a poli ical subterfuge. Dr. Barcelo's answer was an editorial in his La Democracia, Liberal daily, entitled "Governor Gore, You Are a Damn Liar...
...LaGuardia accused McKee of hounding a Seabury investigation witness to death, of reinstating a dismissed assistant when the assistant threatened to report McKee's misdoings as Aldermanic President, of being a Jew-baiter, a foe of women's suffrage. McKee accused LaGuardia of being a Communist, a liar. Candidate LaGuardia re ported to NRAdministrator Johnson that a member of the McKee slate was using the Blue Eagle insignia on his campaign literature. General Johnson promptly ordered the practice stopped. Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, stumping for LaGuardia, declared that McKee had drawn up cor poration papers for a realty concern...
...quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They found one accused of murdering her child...