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Most Popular Red. In Russia the political setup has now come to such a pass that production of the Soviet Encyclopedia of Literature has been halted, Soviet history books printed only recently have been withdrawn from the schools by order of Stalin, and a dispatch last week announced that the Commissariats for Education were expected to put some old Tsarist history books into Russian pupils' hands again. Reason: Soviet educators can agree that the Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent...
...Heavenly Host. The latter consists of rows of angels banked 60 ft. higher and seeming to reach out of sight. Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch into Egypt. Moses and the fugitive children of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon follow in rich procession, dipping down into the synagogue itself from time to time until the night is over and the congregation is spared slaughter but is exiled and sent once more on the Jews' eternal road...
This was a British journalistic feat probably never before equaled and perhaps never to be surpassed in reversing at the start the biggest news story of the Empire last week. The dispatch contained no particulars of the alleged "enthusiasm" of Indians for the Coronation and this was presumably confined to pukka sahibs in the privacy of their homes. At the Congress sessions last week the Mahatma spoke with his usual mystic benevolence...
Ships regularly smuggling opium into China are chiefly British, Japanese and Norwegian-the British being credited in one dispatch with 76 vessels, and the Japanese padding their sea smuggling with much running of opium overland from Manchukuo. In 1936 on April Fool's Day, dealing in opium was established as a Chinese Government monopoly, and about $3,500.000 per month in opium license taxes go to the Chief of the Military Affairs Commission of the Nanking Government. Last week famed Chiang Kaishek, Dictator of China, resigned as Chief of the Military Affairs Commission, also resigned his numerous other Government...
...because she had influenza. The new King's sister, Princess Mary, suffered an attack, as did the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. Last week Queen Mother Mary took sick. Observed the London Times: "Whole households are being affected and considerable dislocation of business is taking place." The Sunday Dispatch: "1,000,000 persons are down with...