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...same time, clearly, the stories are only stories. They are related like tales over mulled ale, or over a shot of Scotch, depending on the reader's taste in such things, and leave an impression of leisurely chuckling over life, with some admixture of the entomologists insect-on-the-pin curiosity. Unquestionably, no one will be purged by this book, nor will he mount through it to an ivory tower; but nearly everyone will enjoy it, and nearly everyone will remember for at least an hour after reading it that he is human...
...suspicion and hatred on his enemies; men of Torgler's courage and intelligence make martyrs not soon forgotten. Acquittal will be a hard degree for the court to issue; Herr Goebbels has not led the German people to expect such a decision. And it will be doubly hard to pin all the burden on Van der Lubbe, after the testimony of the experts that he could not have done it alone. Who helped him? Was there, as one correspondent intimated, a second fire, laid by those who had access to Goering's tunnel? These queries will doubtless be asked anyway...
Among the group of gold objects is a gold fibula or safety pin, decorated with a ram's head, whose Etruscan filigree work is of the greatest rarity. Of equal prominence is a series of gold dress ornaments used on a costume to the dead...
...notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, whose short skirt and sorority pin would have mystified many in that quiet company...
...been free to assume that President Roosevelt would recognize Manchukuo sooner or later as no worse than Bolshevikland. Secretary of State Cordell Hull has given no sign that he favored his Republican predecessor's "Stimson Doctrine" of unyielding nonrecognition of Manchukuo. Abruptly last week President Roosevelt moved to pin on Manchukuo an odium worse than any attaching to Russia. The President sent the State Department's assistant chief of Far Eastern Affairs, Stuart Fuller, to read a 1,700-word U. S. protest anent Manchukuo to the League of Nations' Opium Commission in Geneva. Pointedly ignoring...