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...next proclamation at Jerusalem: "I have learned with horror of atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and blood-thirsty evildoers, of savage murders perpetrated upon the defenseless members of the Jewish population regardless of age and sex, accompanied, as at Hebron, by acts of unspeakable savagery. . . . My first duties are to restore order in the country and inflict stern punishment upon those found guilty of the acts of violence. I charge all inhabitants of Palestine to assist...
...impressive scheme of industrial and agricultural expansion by which, by 1933, he proposed to make the Soviet Union entirely self-supporting and independent of the outside capitalistic world. Last week Dictator Stalin announced his budget for 1930, published figures which, if honest, showed astounding progress made during the first of his Five Years...
...sort of treason?the treason of destructively criticizing a dead man's ideals?was charged last week against that august intellectual aristocrat Dr. Hu Shih. famed as "the foremost Chinese modern thinker," founder of the Chinese Literary Renaissance, first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken language of the people, graduate of Cornell (B. A.) and Columbia...
...Just 46 years prior she had lost the so-called "War of the Pacific" (1879-83), and victorious Chile then seized Tacna-Arica as war spoil. Negotiations begun with President Harding as arbiter, carried virtually to conclusion under President Coolidge, and topped off in the first few months of the Hoover regime, resulted in the present 50-50 compromise of giving Tacna back to Peru. Last week in Lima, maids and matrons deliriously dancing on "Joy Day" brought a crown of solid gold laurel leaves to bantam President Leguia, ecstatically crowned him "The Hero of Tacna's Delivery...
Last week Publisher William Randolph Hearst made an announcement in the city where he first began publishing newspapers. He purchased from C. H. Brockhagen the San Francisco Bulletin and merged it with his San Francisco Call-Post. Editor Fremont Older of the Call-Post, 6 ft. 2 in., with a sea-captain's mustache, would continue as editor of the combined newspapers...