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Last December Writer Shaw squinted happily at a crowd in a London railway station, declared, "I am really going away because I want to get away from you," and set off on a world tour aboard the Empress of Britain. Since then the world's editors have received-and printed-one, two or three despatches on Shaw each week...
...Siam, Shaw was for once obscured, by the presence of Prince Curbhatra aboard the Empress of Britain. In Peiping he flew over the Great Wall and contented himself with saying: "There is a Japanese soldier pointing a rifle at every Chinese inhabitant, but keeping down nationalism is like sitting on a horse's head-there's no time to do anything else. The Chinese should study Communism." In Hawaii, though he refused to be garlanded with lei, he said: "I sincerely hope you never permit Christianity to destroy or change the beauty of your dances. They have...
...totally different nature is the exhibit now on view in the Treasure Room in Widener Library. This is a collection of signature of the kings and queens of all the royal houses of Europe, both past and present, Frederick the Great, Louis XII and Louis XVI of France, the Empress Eugenic, Victoria, the Emperor Charles V, Napoleon, and Louis Phillipe are all represented in this exhibition. Some of the documents bearing royal signatures are proclamations, and other military commissions...
...Philip de Lannoy, landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1621 aboard the Fortune. When Sara was eight, her mother took her and six brothers and sisters around the Horn on the clipper Surprise to Hongkong. The voyage lasted 110 days. Later there were trips to Paris, breathtaking glimpses of the Empress...
...Dear me," commented Chengteh's Belgian Catholic Missionary, Father Oscar Conrad, "I don't suppose this place has been so excited since the Empress Dowager was here 72 years...