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...Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this is handled with the worst direction, the most inexpert acting (including that of Miss Ulric) and the shabbiest mise en scene now observable on Broadway...
...Paris fireworks lit the sky, and the people sang "Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre," for ships had brought news of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. From Nice Lord Cholmondeley hastened to pay his respects to Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and Fox's ill-fated ministry swiftly dispatched ambassadors to treat with the philosopher. Jay arrived, and John Adams, and from London came Richard Oswald, a merchant whom Shelbourne considered sufficiently canny to deal successfully with the Yankees. The stage was set for great deeds. For reasons personal or traditional the gulf between Dr. Franklin, Mr. Adams...
...position to answer Comrade Gourevitch bluntly. In Washington, however, threats were promptly heard that the R.F.C might find it necessary to refuse loans intended to finance exports of U. S. goods which Russia badly needs. Abruptly Mr. MacMurray, who was supposed to be merely "stopping off in London" en route to his Baltic post, announced that he had been called back to Washington, presumably to advise the President what to do about shrugging Comrade Gourevitch...
...view it was unfortunate that the defendants at the trial were not more articulate. Only one, Ernst Torgler, was German. He cried: "I am fully innocent. ... I have been in jail for seven months, five of which I was chained day and night and compelled to live in en forced silence." Dim-witted Defendant van der Lubbe could scarcely speak German. Two of the Bulgarian defend ants could speak none at all. But fiery George Dimitroff, for 23 years leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was articulate. Trials, even death sentences, are no novelty for him. In 1924, after...
...controlled by Turkey's Government. U. S.-founded and U. S.-supported, Robert College must teach the official Turkish history in Turkish. Robert's teachers must be satisfactory to the Ministry of Education. When the Ministry beheld the School & Society article it grew choleric, telegraphed Dean Fisher -en route from a vacation in the U. S.-that he would not be readmitted to historic old Turkey. Robert officials were confident last week they could get him reinstated. Dean since 1922, Historian Fisher was ousted in 1924 because he was supposed to have made uncomplimentary statements about Turkey...