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Which Capitalist European Power would be the first to swallow its hatred of Communism and make a military ally of Soviet Russia? The Russians frankly needed and wanted a European friend to protect their back in case they ever fight Japan in the East. Germany and Poland, however, were too close to the Bolshevik Menace to see the opportunity. Three weeks ago France hesitantly took the plunge, signed a Treaty of Mutual Assistance with Russia (TIME, May 13). Last week Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France, arrived in Moscow to see what kind of a bargain...
Practical. 1) Italy's two East African colonies, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, are unconnected except by the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. As early as 1906, France and Britain gave her permission to build a railroad through Abyssinia to connect the two. Only a military expedition will make it possible...
...Thomas Edward Lawrence, 46, famed, mysterious War hero of Arabia; of injuries received in a motorcycle accident, caused when he swerved at high speed to avoid a child, catapulted over the handlebars; in Wool, Dorset, England. Welsh-born and Oxford-educated, Lawrence had been an archeologist in the Near East before the War broke. In Arabia he joined Feisal and Hussein (later Kings of Irak and the Hejaz), secretly raised and led Arab irregulars against the Turks. Shrewd, daring and adroit at dealing with Arabs, Lawrence made his forces "invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like...
...paying off Manhattan newshawks with whom he made solemn $25 bets that he would not be married within a year. Meanwhile Barbara's father, Franklyn Laws Hutton, had followed in his private railroad car the Curleyhut. After three days of shopping, dancing, sightseeing, Count & Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow started East in the Curleyhut, headed for France or Denmark...
That paragraph, seemingly clear enough, seemed to be the key-paragraph in the social service report presented last week to the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church-a body representing all the Methodists eastward of Third Avenue in New York, on Long Island and in Connecticut as far as New Haven. Without much argument the Conference adopted the report. This seemed to mark the Conference as forthright, courageous. It seemed to demonstrate that the New York East Methodists had thoughtfully examined Capitalism, had totally and finally rejected it and were ready to lead their people on toward...