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...family have given 1, 000,000 bolivianos to the cause!" announced Bolivian Tin Tycoon Simon I. Patino, and presented two of his private German airplanes to the Government for bombing service...
...London alert correspondents who know how Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon thinks, speaks and writes asserted with confidence that they recognized him as the author of an editorial in the London Times extenuating the Treaty of Changchun...
...fellow-citizens when they determined to commemorate, with this testimonial of their enthusiasm, the decisive victory of the Marne." Was There a Battle? Instead of planning a last stand or ''Battle of the Marne" Papa Joffre had ordered a retreat to the Seine when General Joseph Simon Galliéni learned through one of his airmen of an amazing German move. Though Germany's Armies on the Western Front had slashed through Belgium and Northern France until they were almost in sight of Paris, their swift advance had suddenly been halted by orders from General von Moltke...
...LOON'S GEOGRAPHY?Hendrik Willem Van Loon?Simon & Schuster...
Geography, physical and political, has never been made a very exciting subject in school. Smart Hendrik Willem Van Loon makes it exciting by taking it out of school and glorifying it. He is well-advised in having as publishers smart Simon & Schuster, high-pressure popularizers. Written in Van Loon's familiar, not to say impertinent style, as if he were talking to children but hoped to be overheard by grownups, the 525 pages are thickly plummed with sketches and maps, many of them in bright colors. The book's jacket conceals a gaily inaccurate map of the world, "suitable...