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...factor neither President Coolidge nor Secretary Hughes mentioned: the Soviet's determination to meet U. S. claims with counterclaims based on the use of U. S. troops against the Reds in North Russia (TIME, Dec. 9) and Siberia. Comrade Josef Stalin has declared that these Russian claims are five times the size of the U. S. claims. The Soviet Government likewise contends that any payment it makes on the debts must not be accepted as such but as a sort of "super-interest" on industrial credits it expects to receive in return...
...indomitable Zita's husband. Kaiser Karl was a devout Catholic, led a respectable life, was conscientious as an army officer. His fault was that, flaccid and morally spineless to a degree, he was trusted from one moment to the next by no one, from his great- uncle Franz Josef I to his royal "cousin" Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The two years (1916-18) in which he wore the slightly age-battered crown of St. Stephen were a succession of backings and fillings and unfulfilled political pledges...
...Most contested clause in the suit was won by Miss Lackey: that Ruggiero shall go through with ten concerts in ten weeks at $2,500 a concert this autumn. The Riccis feared for Ruggiero's health. Lackey counsel pointed to chubby, healthy Yehudi Menuhin.* The Riccis countered with Pianist Josef Hofmann's exploitation when a boy. Declared the court of prodigies in general, of Ruggiero in particular: "No such prodigious task confronts him [Ruggiero] as the one imposed on Hofmann, who, while touring America gave 50 public concerts in two and a half months. . . . May not a career of concert...
Leon Trotsky, exiled to Turkey two years ago by Dictator Josef Stalin, hurled a figurative bunch of sour grapes last week in Moscow's direction...
...backers of the Philadelphia Orchestra's first season of summer concerts nightly in shady Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park. For 24 concerts tickets sold at $5. Besides Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens, guest maestros will include Karl Krueger (also at the Hollywood Bowl) and Josef Alexander Pasternack. Albert Coates and Willem van Hoogstraten will alternate as conductors between Philadelphia and Manhattan (see below). From Berlin will come Ernst Knoch, famed conductor of Wagnerian music...