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...lunched and "changed'' the Hon. Carl J. Hambro, a Speaker of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), leader of its Conservative Party. At Speaker Hambro's suggestion a team of 35 "life-changers" arrived in Norway last October, among them well-beloved Bishop Logan Herbert Roots of Hankow, spending a year of Group travel by special permission of the U. S. Episcopal House of Bishops. By the time it reached Copenhagen last Easter, the team had grown to 250, including the Bishop of Finland and many a Scandinavian socialite. The combined weight of big names, the Groups' persuasive...
...count on being tortured carefully to death. As his U. S. pilot put his ship prayerfully into a long glide, bullets came pinging close, but on she skimmed. Abruptly she resumed her sweet thunder, banked, climbed, soared into the zenith and at length brought Young Marshal Chang safe to Hankow...
...speakers are Bishop Root of Hankow, China, Alexander Smith, treasurer of the Republican State Committee of New Jersey; the Reverend Samuel Shoemaker of the Calvary Church, New York City; Philip Marshall Brown, former professor of International Law at Princeton; the Reverend Frederick C. Lawrence '20; Samuel Shellabarger, and Roland Hazard...
...Shanghai just after Chiang Kai-shek had split with the Communist-dominated wing of the Kuomintang and made peace with the Western powers. Two governments existed in China after that-the Nationalist of Nanking, dedicated to making China a Middle-Class country, and the so-called Communist government at Hankow, where Borodin and Madame Sun Yat-sen stood in the wings, hoping to "proclaim the Soviet," but never getting a chance. Sheean saw Borodin daily, was impressed by the man's philosophy, the "long view" of the theoretical Marxist who regarded immediate events as meaningless unless related to other...
...Bruce Lockhart, both onlooker and participant. Unable, in spite of Borodin and Rayna, to make up his mind about Communism, Sheean wavered. But he began to take a hand in the processes of history, attempted to bring T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Sun Yatsen, from Shanghai to Hankow, offered to smuggle Fanny Borodin out of Peking. No longer the impassive newshawk, Sheean, when he covered the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Holy Land, broke down completely, took sides violently, and learned conclusively that he was "no longer a newspaper man." What journalism has lost, the quality magazines have gained...