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...managing director. Since picking up the Herald, a doddering Laborite organ, five years ago, busy little Julius Elias has rammed its circulation from 250,000 to more than 2,000,000. In so doing he led the English Press in the most insanely expensive circulation war that circulation-war-torn isle had ever seen (TIME, Sept. 25, 1933). All the popular London newspapers pitched into the furious scramble for readers, bribing them with every premium imaginable from sets of Dickens, through washing machines to suits of underwear. The war's hottest year - 1933 - cost all combatants...
...Saito nor his enterprising staff would deny that their task has been made infinitely easier than that of their predecessors. A prime source of diplomatic boondoggling has been removed. For since Saito has been in the U. S., his great & good friend cocky Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota has torn the mask off Japan's "mission in the Orient," has come out flatly and finally for Asia for the Asiatics, i. e. the Japanese. An illustration of how neatly this mission was progressing was at hand last week. After months of negotiation, Foreign Minister Hirota was about to honor...
...German released from a Nazi prison camp tells his friends what a fine time he had there-plenty to eat, games all day long and a wonderful library. "But how did you get your nose broken and your ear torn off?" neighbors...
...sympathetic souls are torn...
...Years of humiliation are now finished. Years in which Germany will arise to new power and greatness are ahead. We have broken the Treaty of Versailles, Ja! We have torn off our shackles on the principle that 'Whoever has the power gets the rights...