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Grand Duke Cyril's suspicions of internal trouble in Russia were proved with startling effect by a late despatch from Moscow. By order of the Stalin government, three former imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during...
...Princess Helen of Saevia whom he loves, and marries, without any regrets for the U. S. girl. As a novel, The King Who Was a King is thus unconventional in form. The fact that it is the author's description of a possible film, gives the story an effect less real than it would have on the screen. Paul's dream of ultramodern warfare on land, sea and air, with poison gas, liquid fire, mob massacre, would make Hollywood producers tremble not only at the moral shock this might cause on the box-office front, but in itself...
...immediate effect of the agreement, if it is ratified by the governments concerned, will make for the economic benefit of all of them by disposing of the uncertainty that has featured the question of reparations ever since the war. But students of history may well be cynical of the permanent nature of such an agreement. With the payments stretching over sixty years, there is every chance that before their completion the political relations of the European powers will be vastly different to their condition now. Modern Europe has never passed sixty years without a major conflict, and it is unlikely...
...sweeping change in the regulations top readmission was effected by a recent vote of the Administrative Board announced yesterday at University Hall. With present regulations in effect the number of men readmitted as Freshmen will be reduced to a negligible quantity...
...former anomalous relation of the two institutions was clarified by President Eliot in a letter of May 29, 1893. In effect, the president and fellows of Harvard University agreed that the institute founded by the society should have a name--"X College"; that they should be the visitors of X College, and that the president should countersign the diplomas of X College, which should also bear the Harvard seal, to testify to the equivalence of the degrees granted by the two institutions. Other rights were also granted by Harvard. Then in June, 1893, President Eliot suggested for the name...