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...Harbin, Consul Hanson took no sides. He made friends with everybody. He got U. S. oil promoters and fur dealers out of trouble over White Russian dancers. And he kept his eyes & ears wide open. On the crucial Chinese Eastern Railway he rode impartially in the private cars of Chinese officials, Russian officials, Japanese bankers. When Japan finally turned from scheming to shooting he was ready. Without waiting for instructions he swung through the trouble area, let Secretary Stimson act on first-hand facts instead of garbled press reports...
...only later came to realize their social implications. But Root the Citizen took time from his $200,000-a-year practice to help draft an anti-corporation Constitution for New York State, to help Reformer Seth Low become Mayor of New York City on a platform attacking the street railway interests for which he himself was counsel...
...Buddhas, the Panchen Lama, or spiritual head, and the Dalai Lama or temporal head of Buddhism. British intrigue found the Dalai Lama more willing to listen to reason. The Panchen Lama fled to China, where for the past eleven years he has been traveling about in a bright yellow railway car, oblivious to and unharmed by civil wars, on a salary of $480,000 (Mex.) a year from the Nationalist Government...
...horseback, teaching Bolsheviks to play polo. With experienced, hard-driving Counselor of Embassy John Wiley plugging at his side. Ambassador Bullitt stormed the Kremlin again & again on the issues of credits and debts. Some four months ago Ambassador Bullitt left Moscow by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway, flew extensively up & down China and arrived late last year in Washington where last week he was advising the President...
...Provide pensions for aged railway workers, cash compensation for men dismissed because of reorganizations and consolidations...