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Japan's pacifists and Communists have been largely driven into hiding but still extant is the National Council of Japanese Trade Unions and in Manhattan last week arrived its chairman, doughty Mr. Kanju Kato. Ever fearless of the "patriotic" assassins who have often tried to get him, Mr. Kato bluntly answered a Herald Tribune newshawk's question: "Have...
Last week episodes like these were half revealed, half suggested, in two papyrus leaves and one small papyrus scrap from a collection of Greek writings acquired in Egypt lately by the British Museum. The papyri, declared Keeper of Manuscripts Harold Idris Bell, are the oldest Christian writings extant. Of the 2nd Century, they antedate the Chester Beatty New Testament papyri (3rd Century) which came to light four years ago. Paralleling and at times supplementing the Gospels, the papyrus fragments are apparently close to the sources used by St. John in his writings...
...little-known fact about the holy mountain is that, besides housing many another Christian relic, its monasteries contain more pieces of the True Cross than any other single locality. The Cross has been calculated to have measured 178,000,000 cubic millimetres. Of 3,942,000 c. mm. extant, Mount Athos has pieces aggregating 878,360 c. mm., Rome...
...years when Lenin, Trotsky and Zinoviev were the Bolshevik Big Three, speeches like the above by tousle-haired, barrel-chested Grigory Zinoviev thoroughly alarmed Englishmen from dukes to grocers. After them was the chairman of the Third International, Moscow's still extant organization for promoting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. In those days Promoter Zinoviev had plenty of money. He poured millions into the treasuries of English trade unions. Probably he did not write the notorious Zinoviev Letter, purporting to "instruct" Laborite (i.e. Socialist) officials of James Ramsay MacDonald's first Cabinet (TIME...
Sixty years ago a good picture by Jean Antoine Watteau cost less than $500. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum paid some $250,000 for its first Watteau painting. For $250,000 the Metropolitan in 1870, the year it was founded, could have bought every Watteau extant. Even in the last few years $250,000 would have bought two good Rembrandts, an El Greco, a couple of Gainsboroughs, several Rubens, at least one Goya, one Corot, and one Cézanne...