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As an Empire reformer Philip Kerr edited the Round Table, a scholarly journal of political philosophy. As Lloyd George's secretary during World War I, he made two secret journeys to Switzerland to try to convince Austrians that further fighting was hopeless. As a peacemaker, he was with Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lord Lothian's Job | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Now it counted more that he is a strong Roman Catholic who has the earnest sympathy of Pope Pius XII; that his sister, Marie-Jose, married Crown Prince Umberto of Italy-possible checkrein to keep Benito Mussolini from jumping in on Hitler's side; that his late wife was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

The Committee theoretically controls the Army, Navy and Air Force, so that ostensibly Klim was promoted, but in Moscow few doubted the Dictator was stripping the Marshal of all real power. Two most accepted reasons: 1) the original Red Army fiasco in the Finnish campaign was the fault of either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Timoshenko for Voroshilov | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Chinese legend declares that Chin P'ing Mei (Metal Vase Plum-blossom) was written by a famed 16th-Century Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: China's Forbidden Classic | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

But the life of the order of St. John the Evangelist is not always one of monotonous spirituality. In 1932, for instance, a devout believer is reported to have sent the fathers two cases of beer, as a token of his gratitude to God for the repeal of Prohibition. The...

Author: By F. H. B., | Title: Circling the Square | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

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