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Author Price's main reason for urging closer co-operation with Japan is unusual: ... If time modifies the Nipponese crusade, making it less militant and more cultural, less the elevation of a world-Emperor and more the spread of a world accord, she can do a real service in helping to wipe out the petty nationalism that is today plaguing most nations, including Japan." Anti-Japanese readers will certainly believe that lively Author Price is suffering from a Rising Sunstroke...
...Early this year, Franklin Roosevelt firmly declared he would take no sides in this year's State elections. Last week, he broke this high resolve not of his own accord but because the principals in Pennsylvania's row about the Democratic gubernatorial nomination (TIME. Feb. 28) came to him for counsel. To the White House went Governor Earle, State Democratic Chairman David Lawrence. Publisher David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and Senator Joseph Guffey, presumably to get endorsement of a candidate. Said Governor Earle when the party emerged: "The President had only one suggestion. He said he needed...
...cabinets were composed of Congress members, and the ostensible reason for Saint Gandhi's orders was the "scandalous action" of the two local British governors in "refusing the advice" of the two premiers that the jails of the United Provinces and Bihar be opened. The refusal was in accord with the safeguarding clause of the Indian Constitution, and fairly reasonable since the amnesty would have turned loose, among other jailbirds, 15 Congress members serving time for murder, robbery, derailing of trains, manufacturing infernal machines...
...this was a good story, but the facts, as they belatedly emerged, left it nothing but a cock-and-bull story-except for the tremendous fact that the Chancellor of Austria and the Chancellor of Germany did secretly meet and negotiated a most vital accord which they further agreed to rush into action with the greatest haste, before Adolf Hitler was due to address the Reichstag. Dr. Schuschnigg is one of Europe's hardest, smartest, most devoutly pious and most able statesmen. So far from the Nazis having been such fools as to try to crack him by third...
...Vale properties were "of dubious reputation morally." There were stories that girls in chains had been found in a Church-owned flat. Layman Currie moved a resolution deprecating this situation. But from testimony it appeared that, wherever possible, the ecclesiastical commissioners are getting out of bad leases, and that, according to Scotland Yard, "There is no need to capture girls and chain them up . . . . because conditions in London today are such that people go of their own accord." Almost unanimously, the Assembly voted down Mr. Currie's resolution...