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...Br'er Sirs: Quite often, in TIME, I see Foreign Minister Briand referred to as "BR...
Because Aristide Briand is quite as foxy, perhaps foxier than famed Br'er Fox in the Uncle Remus tales (Author Joel Chandler Harris), TIME terms him "Br'er Briand." French readers may not know that "Br'er" is the negro dialect contraction of "Brother," that its playful application to a foxy statesman is not extinct in U. S. political usage...
Togo, Heihachiro, Count (created '07), Admiral of Fleet, Member of Board of Marshals & Fleet Admirals, Order of Merit (Br.), 1st Class Golden Kite and Grand Order of Chrysanthemum; born 1847, a son of petty retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after...
Buckingham to Berlin, As a final British gesture, George V received the Germans at Buckingham Palace. From there "Iron Cross" Brüning set out for home to face German music, loud music, menacing music, stirred by his decree. In Berlin Communists had staged "hunger riots" against "Brüning the Hunger Dictator." Roaring defiance, these rioters broke windows, seized "hunger loot...
...year ago Dr. Brüning said: "After the passage of the Young Plan, Germans thought there would be a decrease of taxation and better times. . . . Imagine their disgust, then, to find themselves confronted with the possibility of increased taxes!" This possibility Chancellor Brüning has made an actuality, raising taxes again and again, raising them a fourth time last week. Knowing the extreme depth of German disgust, advertising it to the world. Heinrich Brüning must have anxiously asked himself as he returned to Berlin: "Is it my Catholic duty to proclaim myself Dictator...