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There was also sudden talk in Moscow last week of establishing nondenominational U. S. Protestant churches in Russia. This, Bolshevik leaders seemed to feel, would help President Roosevelt shush devout U. S. critics of his failure to protest up to last week the broken Soviet pledge. Correspondents were told that all U. S. Protestants have to do is supply the money and they can have a church in Moscow...
...were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo. the ''Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. For months the Chinese statesmen who thus met last week have been playing Japan's game. Each fears sudden Death at the hands of some patriotic Chinese, and the purpose of their conference was simply to decide whether there is really any game except Japan's that they can profitably play...
...fistfights, that he had commanded at many a battle, including Waterloo, were merely symptoms of the same madness that had made his old father a raving lunatic. His relations with women, his financial dealings, were truly abominable, but he had been brought up in a harsh school, and the sudden release to such license as the age permitted would have strained better-balanced characters than his. Taking a broad view of the mental and moral infirmities that outraged the Victorians, Authors Sitwell and Barton discover that George possessed one distinction to which Thackeray attached little importance...
Last week Reader's Digest published a noteworthy article called "-And Sudden Death." Its author was a Manhattan newshawk named Joseph C. Furnas. The article was thus prefaced: Like the gruesome spectacle of a bad automobile accident itself, the realistic details of this article will nauseate some readers. Those who find themselves thus affected at the outset are cautioned against reading this article in its entirety...
Excerpts from "-And Sudden Death": "Publicizing the total of motoring in-juries-almost a million last year, with 36,000 deaths-never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realization of the appalling risks of motoring. He does not translate dry statistics into a reality of blood and agony...