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Until Adolf Hitler admitted fortnight ago that Germany has a military air force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Berlin correspondents were afraid to cable stories about the Nazi air bases now being rushed to completion near the Capital, understood that a single reference to them in a dispatch would cause the correspondent to be tried for "espionage and treason...
After the name Whali had been substituted with Teuton neatness and dispatch, the ten dead were dumped overboard, bloodstains scrubbed, everything made shipshape. Meanwhile, even though the Chinese freighter's cargo was chiefly coal, she could not steam to California without taking on food. In almost any port on the China coast she would be recognized. Shrewd Captain Taudien decided to put her in at the Japanese port of Dairen on the nether tip of Manchukuo. Clumsy, he ran her aground...
...letter "e." Ordinarily that supply is ample for run-of-mill newspaper copy. But since the New Deal, newspaper copy has been anything but ordinary. It deals glibly in millions, billions of Federal appropriations, relief expenditures, debts, tax receipts, budget estimates. A dozen lines of a Washington dispatch may contain close to 100 ciphers...
...claims that if Mr. Conant is to be consistent he should dispatch "parties of students to actually observe sociological, economic, and political questions where new experiments are being tried on a titanic scale for example Russia, Germany, Italy, and the United States as represented by our highly experimental present government in Washington...
...Manhattan an astounding cable from Peking made the general manager of Associated Press grab his grey fedora and dash for Washington. He was promptly received by the Secretary of State. Together they bent over a long, incredible dispatch signed Frederick Moore. It purported to reveal that the Chinese Republic had just received a secret ultimatum from the Japanese Empire to the following effect: The President of China must accept Japanese protection of China and in return must sign over certain powers to the Emperor of Japan. These powers included control of the Chinese Army, the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Treasury...