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...Poland. The "passionate consciousness of race and nation" so natural to educated young men and women has been outraged too many times. The invasion of the Ruhr was a tremendous victory for all those Germans whom Americans in general regard as "reactionaries," the shooting down of German workmen at Essen at Easter time in 1923 was another, and every pinprick, big or small, has reduced still more the strength of the parties of the Left in Germany. Without the help of France, there would probably still be Socialists in the German cabinet and General von Hindenburg would most likely...
Moreover, Sheik Razek does not believe the Koran to be infallible. Even if the Koran be accepted as a code for personal conduct, it is not, says the Sheik, an adequate guide to modern statecraft. He considers that the Califate* has become corrupt, incompetent-essen tial cause of the backwardness of Islam...
Last week despatches from London announced that Dr. Hartman had a perfected "diving bell," was off with seven fellow-scientists and a secretary, for test drops to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable...
...clock one bright, calm morning last week, French troops were drawn up before the Mine Owners' League Building, Essen, which for sometime has been French military headquarters...
...business men had forgotten the resplendent Field Marshal President. Realities remained, and of them Hans Luther was the master. They concentrated on his rosy face, his shining eyes-the "typical" figure of a youngish German. (The Chancellor is only 46.) They remembered him as the onetime Upper Burgomaster of Essen who twice was summoned to appear before the French General of Occupation, who twice refused-and the General came to him. They saw him now as the hard-headed hero who first balanced the budget and stabilized the mark, and who had done it "not by genius but by character...