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Eastern Reverberations. The Soviet envoys to China and Japan, MM. Karakhan and Kopf, have been recently recalled to Moscow, to appraise M. Tchitcherin of the moves on the Far Eastern chessboard. It has been widely rumored that the Soviet program of Communist subversion in China will be altered to a policy of attempted co-operation with the first Chinese government which shall emerge strong enough to contract an alliance. As if to forecast this turning of China from Western . Europe to Russia, the present unstable Peking Government recently abrogated the ChinoBelgian trade treaty of 1865.* These developments, admittedly straws bending...
...possibilities of new political alignment with Mr. Coolidge as Pres- ident are extremely various. With one sweep the jokester, Fate, took all the pieces off one side of the political chessboard; then put them back in new arrangement...
...Lippo Lippi tossed the sinful chessboard into a dark corner when the abbot called him to illuminate the daily chronicle. The monks had found that he had "joined legs and arms to the long music notes, found nose and eyes and china for A's and B's. He had only scorn for the inky-fingered scribblers who drew the Latin script...