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Inquiries were instituted into the past of M. Robischon. He was a retired business man who dabbled in literature as a hobby. He is very rich. Yes, he was the originator of the Flaubert prize! " C'est très gentil," remarked the Latin Quarter contemptuously...
...Lenin est mort! Vive Lenin...
...famine stricken orphans of Russia. "Firstly and chiefly," said she, "I want to thank the people of America. . . . We have millions of orphans who need clothes, medicines, education, books - everything - as well as foodstuffs, and Russia is so poor. Then I want to see your new- est schools and hospitals for children, and study, the best American systems." Mme. Kalinin is expected to sail shortly. She, like her husband, is a simple peasant. A woman of about 35 years of age, she is the mother of three children and the foster mother of two famine orphans...
During celebrations of the Revolution of 1848 held by the awakening Magyars at Budapest the offices of the newspaper Az Est (The East), which has been friendly to the Jews, were raided. Seven students were wounded in the fighting, which was finally terminated by the police, who were obliged to use their swords. The situation has become so grave that the Government has been obliged to bar Jews from attending the high schools and universities. In the meantime Premier Count Bethlen is conferring with Admiral Horthy-Regent of Hungary-at Castle Godollo. Many more antiroyalist newspapers have been attacked...
...France--c'est un pays mechant!" This, or its modern equivalent in English, was the decision in a recent court order which forbade an Ohio publisher to circulate an edition of Rabelais. Certain other books by prominent French authors, classics of French literature, have been suppressed elsewhere in this country. These books have withstood the criticism of centuries, have been included in all the great libraries of the world, and have been listed among the best products in any literature. We are still censoring them, and our great-great-aunts, the mid-victorian, ladies who dressed the piano's "limbs...