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...Heidelberg University is not the Nazi government; it is older than a hundred Nazi governments. Anyone who has travelled in Germany and talked with students, especially those of Heidelberg, knows that the Universities strongly resent the violations of their age-old privileges and liberties...
...Socialist duke, Leone Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them, a project dear for hundreds of years...
...Recovery in the U. S., and the beginning of a coincidental -and possibly related-decline in Franklin Roosevelt's popularity; the first year in which the League of Nations aggressively sought to end a war by punishing its perpetrator; and the year which gave evidence that the age-old machinery of diplomacy may lose none of its effectiveness when concealed beneath semi-modern League streamlining. The U. S. was certainly on its way back, despite the Government (Republican version), or ahead, because of the Government (Democratic version). In other words, times were better and a third-year tempest...
...arrived at a state of sophistication which prevents them from regarding illicit love as shocking. Ibsen's fight in "Ghosts" was against convention and the rigid moral code of his time which resolved life into "duty and obligation" and left happiness as a sort of rare unearned increment. The age-old moral and social laws which press upon the young, forcing them to accept destiny instead of fighting it, the incessant pressure of conservative institutions such as home and the church, these are the ghosts which Ibsen is trying to lay. The technical and literary genius of his work...
...days after three bullets put the Premier of China to bed (see above), Acting Premier & Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung abruptly "Nationalized" the age-old basis of Chinese money, silver. Chinese could still hoard all the gold they pleased, but Dr. Kung made it treason for Chinese to hold silver which he ordered into the Government's banks. To a nation that has never had any great confidence in paper, the Chinese Government decreed that its paper is legal tender and not redeemable in either silver or gold...