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Almost every episode of betrayal sent him scurrying into brief exile in France. In 1911 he visited Paris "for study." In 1926 he went there "for his health." In 1927 he went "to refresh himself." In 1935, after a would-be assassin had winged him, he went "to recuperate...
...Chungking started a chain letter respectfully dedicated to him. Each recipient of the letter was asked to kick back one dollar and pass copies of the letter on to eleven friends. Honorable destination of the kickbacks: "The Kill Wang Ching-wei Fund," to be awarded to any successful assassin. The families of any unsuccessful and apprehended assassins will each receive 1% of the fund...
...possessed by her one and only love is a woman's rather than a star's performance. John Loder as the Tsar is almost repulsively sweet; but again there may be some historical justification for that. His promising career as Russia's liberator is cruelly broken off by an assassin's bullet--and the touching show comes to a touching end. Katia's final words: "Pauvre Russie!" sets the audience reflecting on the present as well as the past...
...85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken." To show up meat eating, he told of how he utterly confounded a woman who argued that one must eat meat to gain strength. Snapped Dr. Pease: "I never before knew...
...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...