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...Germans it is a bitter, galling fact that Posen, the birthplace of President Paul von Hindenburg, is no longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to the Baltic by the Treaty of Versailles. With his own province thus a knife in the back of his fatherland, Old Paul von Hindenburg has begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness...
...interior alterations were almost completed. On Jan. 4 she will sail for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen. The change groups the George Washington with the United States Lines' other cabin ships, the Republic, President Roosevelt, President Harding and America, in immediate competition with the White Star Line's Baltic and the North German Lloyd's Berlin. The Leviathan, biggest and best U. S.-owned boat, remains the United States Lines' only ship of the de luxe class...
...annex this country is only the first step in the grandiloquent scheme of Polish nationalists to build a gigantic state stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Of course this could not be accomplished without another war, which even the most sanguinary believe cannot happen for at least ten years. Yet that the Poles have been allowed to retain Vilna for seven years without an investigation by the League or interference by any of the powers shows that all is not well. It has its roots in the same condition that is responsible for anti-Semitic riots in Hungary...
...deficient in any one requirement. For example, Stevenson's children's verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly thought that Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic" would appeal to him, for it contained the phrase "Heart of Oak," which was the name of his "Books"; but no! "That was bad business for England to be in, and I won't have...
...upon the Soviets and maintains "spies and assassins" throughout Soviet territory. Against this so-called "British terror" the Soviet continued its adroitly named "counter terror." A score of alleged "British spies" were reported sentenced to death in Russia last week, notably one "Commander Klepikov of a ship in the Baltic fleet, who sold information to the British...