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...Chen seldom has to use his halting Chinese, lashes out with a searing, corrosive power of invective which has made him a force in China ever since he was appointed legal adviser to the original Canton Government of the late, great Dr. Sun. Last year Mr. Chen quarreled with Conqueror Chiang and since then with all the spleen in his bitter soul he has been out to smash the Generalissimo whom he calls "medievally minded," "politically dishonest," "the betrayer of China to Japan" and "the Dictator without a soul who would wreck the Kuomintang...
...blowing in these sinful wages, salted them away as the first deposit toward his future fortune. When he met the beauteous Sarah Jennings, although neither of them had enough money, John snapped his fingers at prudence and married her. A character in her own right, who long survived her conqueror husband, Sarah was a devoted wife but no doormat. Once she took the annoying last word by cutting off her hair; to her chagrin John apparently never noticed it. but later she discovered her shorn locks laid away with his carefully guarded treasures...
...expensively stitched on his soldiers' sleeves, then suddenly announced, "I am going into retirement" (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week the Government of slim, shrill Generalissimo Chiang had to send a private train to bring huge, rumbling War Lord Feng triumphantly home from Chahar. He reached Peiping like a conqueror, traveling with an entire regiment as his bodyguard, grinning and cracking his barnyard jokes at "Chiang and his Government who think they can make themselves foreigners by putting on trousers, eating with knives and forks and leaping about on smooth dance floors clutching a woman...
...Conqueror Napoleon introduced the French guillotine into Prussia. Last week Captain Göring banished it by decree. He substituted the medieval chopping block and headsman's axe. The headsman, he prescribed, must always wear impeccable evening dress...
...Scouts last June, B.P. exclaimed: "I am very glad! The German Boy Scouts were not attached to us. They were military. We are unmilitary and unpolitical-just Boy Scouts and nothing more!" Last week Lord Baden-Powell, referring to the defunct World Monetary & Economic Conference, cried from his conqueror's tent: "Old men have failed in all their recent conferences.† Now youth must show them the way!'' Next day 10,000 Hungarian Boy Scouts and their 20,000 Scout guests showed the way to hold a Jamboree. ("Why call Scout get-togethers Jamborees?" reporters asked...