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...Last week she left Amsterdam to her devoted troops and police and went on with preparations to give Consort Henry the sort of funeral he had said he wanted. When he came as a bridegroom to Holland in 1901, Prince Henry, fourth son of the late reigning Duke of Mecklenburg, was considered by the Dutch people most handsome but too frivolous. He introduced boar hunting and Dutch farmers were furious. But Prince Henry proved adaptable. He learned to sit expressionless beside Her Majesty in the State Coach, looking neither to right nor left, while she did the bowing and smiling...
...author is minister of the Wesley Methodist Church in Minneapolis. A widely circulated questionnaire, which has just been tabulated, discloses the fact that of some 25,000 American clergy only five per-cent are content with the capitalistic system. Mr. Mecklenburg belongs to the other ninety-five per-cent. He went to Russia willing to learn. Whether he was let see what he might have liked to see we do not know. He seems to think that he moved about freely; and now, certainly, he speaks out his mind...
...Mecklenburg deflates a good many of the supposed horrors and terrors of Russian life. Under Stalin religious persecution has cased. Free love is ancient history and divorce is becoming increasingly difficult:--at present the figures are not appreciably in advance of those in America. He notes the inefficiency of the Russian industrial plants--only two out of three automobiles will run out of the shop under their own power. But he thinks this inefficiency no worse than the unemployment of millions of men in the rest of the world...
...liquidating". The central committees are periodically "cleansed" of inactive members. If you don't make converts, out you go. The word "liquidate" he heard fifty times a day. All the stubborn problems of life and the world--bad roads, antiquated farming, stealing--were in process of being "liquidated." Mr. Mecklenburg approved of this category...
...least interesting part of this book is a preliminary twenty pages in which the Secretary-Treasurer of the Organized Unemployed, Inc., of Minneapolis--an outgrowth of Dr. Mecklenburg's work at Wesley Church-tells us how the author has grappled with the depression. 400,000 meals served, 400,000 leaves of bread baked and sold for 2 1-2 cents scrip, 10,000 pairs of shoes repaired, 8,000 cords of wood sawed, etc. . . . Mr. Mecklenburg feels that the answer of American religion to Russia must be as concrete as the challenge. To his credit be it said that...