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Already in the streets was a Franco manifesto packed with high Latin bombast: "The War was won despite the Government and the encyclopedic ineptitude of the army high command, thanks to the heroism and abnegation of the people. . . . The new Government will arrange a just peace with Bolivia, cede to the homeless the lands now owned by the wealthy, colonize the country with Paraguayans instead of undesirable foreigners, grant subsidies to war widows and mutilated veterans...
...King hastily ordered a lying-in-state for the Field Marshal in Athens' Cathedral, sent condolences to his mother and three sisters. By this time the Army officers had elaborated their policy and sent to George II an "oral manifesto." This warned His Majesty not to dare to grant amnesty to pro-Venizelos officers chased out of Greece during the last Revolution. Obviously the King was suspected of being in a secret pact with M. Venizelos to bring the "Great Exile" back to Greece and make him Premier for the ninth time. Although no doubt willing to sell...
...Father Eaton submitted that he is a Methodist, that his wife had announced that that denomination is one with which she would not permit her children to be connected. Mr. Eaton said his wife had brought home atheist pamphlets, schedule of atheist meetings, Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and an I. W. W. songbook...
While the funeral guns were still booming, youthful Vice President Lopez Contreras was appointed acting President to succeed him. His first manifesto ended with a pointed warning...
...only twelve miles east of Peiping and a leading Chinese educational centre not far from Yenching University whose calm, clear-headed President John Leighton Stuart is now in Manhattan. Highly excited, Yenching's Chinese, American & European faculty leaders this week joined fiery Chinese Philosopher Hu Shih in a manifesto demanding that the Nanking Government "use the energies of the entire nation to maintain the territorial and administrative integrity of China." Gravely Dr. Stuart opined that, in case Japan makes North China a second Manchukuo, the courageous thing for Yenching to do may be to remove in a pioneering trek...