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...President's fellow-citizens were marking his birthday with a huge celebration. Communities staged over 7,000 Birthday Balls, twice as many as last year when $1,000,000 was raised for Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. This year's proceeds were to be split between local infantile paralysis relief (70%) and poliomyelitis research...
...Split wood for oven--Split wood for kindling fires...
...wandering Sheean arrived in Shanghai just after Chiang Kai-shek had split with the Communist-dominated wing of the Kuomintang and made peace with the Western powers. Two governments existed in China after that-the Nationalist of Nanking, dedicated to making China a Middle-Class country, and the so-called Communist government at Hankow, where Borodin and Madame Sun Yat-sen stood in the wings, hoping to "proclaim the Soviet," but never getting a chance. Sheean saw Borodin daily, was impressed by the man's philosophy, the "long view" of the theoretical Marxist who regarded immediate events as meaningless...
...have conversed with other Communists in Moscow to this effect: 1) they believe that in Russia today ''there is no Party and no Central Executive Committee"* of any validity, merely Dictatorship; 2) they believe that within the Stalin clique quarrels have been frequent of late, threatening a split in the Dictatorship; 3) they believe that "everything written in the Soviet Press about the success of industrialization has been false." amounting to systematic "deception of the proletariat"; 4) they believe that "the material condition of the Russian worker is not improving but getting worse"; 5) they believe that Stalin...
...Germany. To withhold it, many Geneva statesmen feared, would touch off a Nazi invasion to seize the Saar. Even the supremely legal mind of Sir John Simon was not attracted, as it normally would have been, by the Treaty of Versailles' proviso that the Saar may be split or diced up into as many parts as the Council pleases, each part being given a different status, corresponding to the local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give each part of the Saar what each part of the Saar wanted; but the League urge...