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...fellow of husbandmen, writer for and teacher of husbandmen, Henry Cantwell Wallace brought to his office a practical and scientific knowledge of agriculture second to none. His understanding of the devices and desires of farmers was gained at first hand?in the days when his father took to the soil in Adair County, Iowa, and later when, as a youth of 20, he was obliged to interrupt his course at the Agricultural College, at Ames, and put in five years raising corn and hogs on one of his father's tenantless farms...
...Came a delegation of alien-born U.S. citizens, 40-odd strong, and the President read to them: "It is not very long, as History views matters, since all of us were alien to this soil. I suppose that if Methuselah . . . should drop in on our little party, he would regard us all as upstarts...
...France became alarmed over the recognition rumors, thought they might be forced either to return to Russia or to become French citizens. Basile Makakov, one time Russian Ambassador to France, called upon Premier Herriot and was assured by the latter that the status of Russians living on French soil would remain unaltered and would not, under any circumstances, become the subject of conversations between France and Soviet Russia...
...religious societies have received the protection of the law; but now the anticlerical Herriot Government is firmly resolved to enforce the laws of congregations not only in France but progressively in Alsace and Lorraine (TIME, Sept. 8). This means that Les Soeurs de Ribeauville must hie them to foreign soil . Is such to be the reward of 47 years of magnificent patriotism? "No!" cry the Alsatians, the Lorrainers...
...change in American policy which has been going on since the Monroe Doctrine was formulated a hundred years ago. The first policy of the United States--and it was welcomed by Spanish America with almost patriotic gratitude--was to keep America for Americans, to prevent European aggrandizement of American soil and resources. It was a policy of self-determination protected by a "hands off" warning to the great powers...