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Germany must agree to observe a "political moratorium" for the next ten years; i. e.. there must be no more agitation for revision of the Treaty of Versailles, return of the Danzig corridor, return of German colonies...
Little Vivian Leichner, 6, wandered down a corridor in Cincinnati's Whittier School one afternoon last week and into a Natural History classroom where a William Harwood "of Leland Stanford University," guest lecturer, was showing children how tame a woman trainer had made two bears and a 200-lb. cub lioness. Terrified, Vivian Leichner turned...
Farther down the hall, guarded from the main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls, silks, rare carvings, vases, a golden Buddha. The walls are papered with golden Chinese tea-paper. On the floor is a great rug of gold, red & black with a geometric pseudo-oriental pattern - designed by Publisher Howard and made in China to his order. The furniture is of lacquer...
...incorporates most of the retrenchments, many of the reforms which Germany has delayed adopting for years. But the budget is also a Hindenburg budget. It provides loans and relief for the farmers of East Prussia, that "hard luck province" cut off from the rest of Germany by the Polish Corridor which enjoys the particular sympathy of Old Paul, himself a Prussian...
...peace in the thirties will be rough going. Major Bratt's challenging book, That Next War?, is a distressing picture of what may be the future. Mussolini with his foot in the boot of Italy bids fair to kick slumbering Mars into action. Germany edges towards the Polish corridor while La Belle France arms herself to the teeth and Hungary eyes her lost provinces in Roumania. If one adds to this score the obvious red flag flying in Moscow the promises of 1918 seem truly dyed in no uncertain...