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Earl Long was never much shucks in school. But Earl, like his late brother Huey P., is hot stuff at political algebra. Last week Louisiana's latest Governor gradually unfolded before the lackluster eyes of his citizens a complicated new formula for solidifying his power. At first the succession of events made no sense: only by week's end did the political algebra begin to solve...
Three daughters had the late Robert W. Gibson, wealthy architect, designer of the New York Botanical Garden Museum. Lydia was a leftist. A painter, sculptress, contributor to the old (Communist) Masses and Liberator, she became in 1922 the wife of well-known Communist Leader Robert Minor. Already she had been banished from the Social Register. Poor dear Lydia was beyond the pale...
Curzon Line. By last week the British had delved into post-World War I history and had discovered even better reasons for excusing Russian occupation of part of Poland. In late 1919, when the new Republic of Poland was set up in business, map-makers of the British Foreign Office drew a north-south line halfway across Eastern Europe to represent what they considered should be the "legitimate frontier" between newly reborn Poland and Russia. This line started from the easternmost boundary of East Prussia and went directly south through Brest-Litovsk and some miles west...
When the Red Army marched into Poland in late September many purists in international conduct thought that, since Britain had guaranteed Polish territorial integrity, in all logic Great Britain should immediately declare war against the U. S. S. R. Instead, pragmatic British statesmen quickly explained that the British Government's Polish guarantee applied only to German aggression and not to a Russian invasion. Winston Churchill even argued that what Comrade Stalin had done "was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia." And Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain indirectly approved of the First Lord's argument by conceding...
...Austria's late Chancellor Seipel was a Monsignor, France's late great Richelieu a Cardinal...