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Still the case was not over. In 1902 the French government put through an anticlerical program and the religious issue revived the Dreyfus Case until Alfred Dreyfus demanded another trial finally to clear his name. In 1906 the third Dreyfus trial (this time not by a military organization) was held and resulted in Captain Dreyfus being absolved from all blame whatsoever. The generally accepted version of the Dreyfus Case was that Major Esterhazy and Colonel Henry had made a business of supplying Germany with military information; that advantage of the Anti-Semetic feeling had been taken to victimize Alfred Dreyfus...
...disposition were outstanding features of the McNary-Haugen bill.) "I can see," added Mr. McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...
...reduction, but differences arise over the amount of the tax cut and over the glory of presenting it to the U. S. nation. Considering the fact that a Republican Administration governs the country, it might appear that the Republicans would have no difficulty in framing a taxation program bearing the G. O. P. stamp and in going before the public at the 1928 presidential election with lowered taxes as one of the campaign cries. But so evenly is Congress divided, and so unreliable (as party men) are several Republicans in the upper house, that Democrats can at least hamper...
Although such a program may seem utterly "red" and "radical" to U. S. eyes, it is quite daringly "conservative" when viewed at Moscow from the standpoint of such fiery Opposition leaders as Messrs. Gregory Zinoviev and Leon Trotzky. These gentry proclaim with sincerity and zeal the necessity of at once throwing the whole might of Soviet Russia behind the Chinese revolution. Indeed M. Zinoviev goes even further and demands that every possible effort be made to launch "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
Hankow Purged? There was evidence last week that the so-called "Communist" regime at Hankow was purging itself of Russian influence and attempting to resume the program of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution." During the week a pronouncement was made, at Hankow, by Sun Fo (son of Dr. Sun) who declared that "three roads" now lie before China: 1) "The road to Communism" which, Sun Fo declared, has now been utterly abandoned by his party; 2) "The road to Fascism," now being followed, said Sun Fo, by his one-time ally the "traitor-militarist" Chiang...