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...ascended St. Peter's throne, liberal, popular. Two years later Italy became so liberal, so revolutionary that he had to flee from the Vatican disguised. The year 1850 saw him once more on the throne. French bayonets had effected his return. But his liberalism was gone...
...being brought to trial before a Florence court on the charge of sedition. Although acquitted by the court, he was set upon by a mob of Fascists as he was leaving the courtroom, and barely escaped with his life. As a result of this affair he was obliged to flee from the country, leaving all his property behind to be confiscated by the Fascists. He has the distinction of being one of the two men who have been deprived of their nationality by the Fascists...
...China the General Yang Yu-ting played until last spring the role of a "Ludendorff." He was the "brains" of a Chinese "Hindenburg," the late and great Marshal Chang Tso-lin, then War Lord of North China and Manchuria. When the advancing Nationalist Armies forced Old Chang to flee from Peking (TIME, June 11) the War Lord's retreat was masterfully executed by "Ludendorff" Yang. With him during the desperate days of retreat was Young Chang-the War Lord's son, Chiang Hsueh-liang...
...Methodist societies conflict with the established religion. But established religion had lost its virility to an "age of reason," and Wesley hoped to counter this "deathly decorum" with a revival of mysticism and emotionalism. Throughout England, therefore, he organized societies with the sole condition of membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to come...
...report last week by two White Star Line skippers that, according to their observations, the Gulf Stream has recently changed its course ten points. Should it swerve away from the British Isles entirely, they would become semi-Arctic. Stern old duchesses and gouty earls would have to flee, pellmell, with cockneys and Irishmen before a new Ice Age. Cold England would have to be abandoned, and Britishmen would seek refuge in their Dominions...