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Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth, said Lady Astor, was "up to the neck in the Cliveden Set," since she often comes to the estate. Franklin D. Roosevelt was once "compromised" there. During the War, when the estate was a military hospital, he came out and helped mow Cliveden's...
Laborite Member of Parliament Dr. Edith Summerskill is a belligerent feminist. She is also a top-notch gynecologist and mother of two children. Her husband, likewise a doctor, works in London's famed Harley Street, where doctors' fees are reputed highest in the world. During the House of...
> As protection of buildings against bomb splinters Britain now has on hand 127,000,000 sandbags. For civilian protection the Government has accumulated 50,000,000 ordinary gas masks and 940,000 special masks for men who will be on outdoor duty even during air raids. Britain's population...
During last year's bloody purge of "Trotskyists, Fascists, counterrevolutionaries, spies and wreckers," many innocent victims were framed by stool pigeons, police agents and prosecutors anxious to build up their reputations for zeal and vigilance. Communist Russia, unlike Nazi Germany, washes much of its dirty linen in public and...
When the earth began to rumble and mongrel dogs to moan in little Tonoyama-machi, suburb of Osaka, one bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was...