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Satisfaction was discreetly shown at the British Foreign Office in London last week as dispatches from Shanghai urgently warned that its Japanese conquerors were about to stage a blatant "Victory Parade," with chances 10-to-1 in favor of some aggrieved Chinese patriot hurling a bomb...
...Chinese policeman shot dead a man who was, said the police marksman, the man who threw the grenade. At first he was called a Korean, then a Chinese. His name did not come out last week. Before the parade could reform there occurred another, equally fatalistic demonstration. A Chinese patriot, who had watched the bomb explode, gave a shrill cry: "Long live the Kuomintang!" (Government Party), and committed suicide by leaping off the top of a tall building...
...Regent's Park Pond a middle-aged patriot was placidly rowing a boat when the silence began, tried to stand upright in his skiff and splashed overboard. Coming to the surface he stood waist-deep in muck and cold water, head bowed for 90 seconds before squishing ashore...
...Ethiopian patriot I do not wish to surrender myself to those who have robbed and colonized Ethiopia, nor have any associations with those who have submitted themselves to them," said Asfa Wassan...
...irrepressible bad boy of politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during...