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TIME, as ever, ready with innuendo and sarcasm, could only find ridicule and malice to report what should have been a happy augury for the future of our Empire...
Then Colonel McCormick gave a lecture to the Tokyo Correspondents' Club. Subject: the history of the Hudson's Bay Co. Before leaving Tokyo for home, he took a walk with Emperor Hirohito amid the 700-year-old dwarf trees in his garden. Reported the Colonel, whose occasional sarcasm and constant, majestic deadpan sometimes pass muster for a sense of humor: "The Emperor said he hoped in the future the relations between Japan and the U.S. would be as warm as they have been in the past...
...Coming Slump. One target of Stabler's sarcasm was Major L. L. B. Angas, the ruddy, cigar-smoking Briton who made a considerable splash in 1934 with his The Coming American Boom. Since then, Major Angas has offered his prophecies, at $25 a year ($100 an hour for private consultations). Last week some of Angas' titles were typical of his gloomy views : Psychology of the Coming Slump, Short-Run Rally, Not a Bull Market - Don't Be Fooled by the Rally...
Once, when a brilliant student who was forever cutting his classes finally showed up, Professor Harper turned to his other students and said: "Gentlemen, Mr. So-&-So is with us today, and we should all be very grateful." From anyone else the remark would have had a touch of sarcasm-but George Harper meant...
...turned to India's communal troubles, said that the Government had adopted one of Mohandas Gandhi's "most scatterbrained observations-'Leave India in God's hands.' " To Churchill that meant "leave her to anarchy." Vividly, and with heavy sarcasm, he summed it up: "Here are these people, in many cases of the same race, charming people, lightly clad, crowded together . . . and yet there is no intermarriage. . . . Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap. It is an astounding thing. Yet the Government expects in 14 months that there...