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...instructions it gave the writer of a kiddies' program. He was told to have "no romances between nobility and commoners, no mention of castles or peasant huts . . . no largesse by an aristocratic hero to a humble maid." An acceptable radio drama might tell how a German baron used to punish his starving tenants for stealing potatoes, and show how his estate has now been divided up into homes for all. During the rest of its 19-hours-a-day on the air, the station has stressed how the Russians pioneered in bringing food into Berlin, introduced racial tolerance, encouraged...
...Freedom. The new Premier was slight, aging (73) Baron Kijuro Shidehara, former Ambassador to the U.S. and one of Japan's few surviving liberal lead ers. Said he: "I will do my best to lead the nation back to self-respect. . . ." His Cabinet included no outright warmakers, no great statesmen of any kind. One of his Government's first measures: abolition of bayonet and jujitsu drill...
...looks of the Buenos Aires press next day, PerÓn's intimidation had worked wonders. The anti-Government attacks had stopped dead. One rumored reason for the reimposition of strict press control: the former German Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann, had squealed in Germany and implicated, as Nazi connivers, Argentina Army officers, from General of the Army Carlos von der Becke on down...
Twelve days after Tokyo's worst recorded earthquake (Sept. 1, 1923), famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a cablegram from the Japanese baron who ran the Imperial Hotel: "Hotel stands undamaged as monument to your genius. Hundreds of homeless provided [for] by perfectly maintained service. Congratulations. Signed, Okura Impeho...
During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks had no time for the Mongolian steppe lands. But in 1921 a Tsarist refugee, the fantastic "Bloody Baron" Michael von Ungern-Sternberg, made Outer Mongolia's metropolis, Urga (pop: 50,000), a base for operations against Russia. So the Bolsheviks liquidated him and moved into Urga, which they renamed Ulan Bator Khoto (Mongol for "City of the Red Hero...