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Before their personal rivalry reached its great climax the War broke. Max made another fortune in Russia, was arrested by the Bolsheviks, saved by his brother, who was killed in an anti-Semitic outbreak. Max returned to Lodz to build still another fortune. But the prosperity of Lodz had depended on the Russian market, and as panic followed inflation the grimy "Manchester of Europe" lost its reason for being, and Max symbolically died as his city began to stagnate...
Lamont on Peace: "I have no firsthand knowledge, but in the three weeks I spent in England and France the people struck me as far less apprehensive than many Americans are of an early outbreak of war in Europe. You see, although we are 3,000 miles away, our able American press supplies us every morning with reports of interesting occurrences in every capital of Europe. And we are so impressed with the bad side of the news that we are apt to forget the peace-loving millions in their homes and fields and factories, and to leap...
...anchor nearby. He sent destroyers to overawe Salonika, the Greek city in which Reds are strongest. Greeks woke up to find that their walls had been freshly plastered at dawn with posters reading: "The Government measures were made necessary because the country was on the eve of an outbreak of a subversive and seditious movement fostered by Communist propaganda and aiming at disaffection in the Army and the spread of the spirit of Anarchy...
...that for the first time, Fascism, like Communism, had become an international force. No labor struggle, no class warfare can break out anywhere in the world without expressions of sympathy, and sometimes cash contributions from Moscow's Third International. Italy now was apparently undertaking to support a foreign outbreak of Fascism in the same way. Correspondents with the northern rebel armies near Burgos were quick to point out German steel helmets. Twice last week Russian freighters loaded with Soviet munitions were reported en route to help the radical Spanish Government. In Moscow, 100,000 workers jammed the Red Square...
...newspaper to read on the boat to France, the headline says: AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE ASSASSINATED AT SARAJEVO. The purpose of the picture, up to this point unrevealed, thereafter becomes clear. Other stories have shown some of the individual happenings which overtook individual farmers, bellringers, soda-jerkers, et al. at the outbreak of War. Suzy sets out to include in one picture all happenings which overtook all chorus girls stranded in all countries in all wars. Over a period of one and a half hours, it seems to succeed...