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...attitude of all dictators toward childbearing, a subject on which Mussolini's semi-official newsorgan Giornale d'ltalia spoke out last week, is enough to make many women fear dictatorships. Declared Giornale d'ltalia: "Italians must not drink less wine lest there be a corresponding decrease in the birth rate. Wine is a moderately exciting beverage which creates happy abandonment that favors accentuation of the phenomena essential to vitality. The birth rate is lowest in countries where wine is not the national drink...
Last week the President of Mexico General Lazaro Cardenas, sent a luxurious special railway car, El Hidalgo ("The Nobleman"), to fetch Comrade Trotsky from the seacoast to the 7,000-ft. high plateau on which stands Mexico City, Lest anyone do the Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher...
Bomb Tokyo? Lead China? Tokyo's queasiest fear this week was lest Mr. T. V. Soong should judge Japan to be in such an economic and political spot that now is actually the best time for China to go to war. Japanese respect the judgment of Mr. Soong and if he was for war then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that...
...wonder. He is the most professional of revolutionists, with a finished technique of backhanded delicacy, and last week his activities were of unusual interest. Trotsky let it be known last month that he was going to have to leave Norway, and was afraid of hospitality proffered him by Mexico, lest he fall victim in its wilds to Stalinist agents. Last week, having established his unenthusiastic attitude toward Mexico in headlines, Comrade Trotsky quietly asked the pro-Stalin and highly radical Mexican Government to make its informally proffered hospitality official. This was promptly done by President Lazaro Cardenas, and Russia...
...board of trustees. That job Dr. MacCracken faithfully held until last week. Then he turned up at the college's tenth anniversary banquet to announce that Sarah Lawrence was now able to go her way alone. Said he: "Mr. Lawrence recognized his own advanced age and was concerned lest the college, inadequately endowed, fall prey to misfortune or more grasping hands. Mr. Lawrence sought a defensive alliance with Vassar, giving that college the power ... to control and finally take over Sarah Lawrence. ... All its powers Vassar now willingly lays down...