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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stalin is no theorist of communism, he was never a dreamer or a romantic hero. He is a cold-blooded man of deeds, uneducated in manner, and disliked by the European communists. He never considers anything which does not concern the near future...
Should the title of U.S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis be changed, in the near future, he would probably become not "Secretary of Peace" but "Secretary of the Science of National Defense." This observers deduced from the fact that President Calvin Coolidge said last week, at Wausau, Wis. (See National Affairs): "We cherish no sentiment of aggression. . . . But . . . for the Government [of the U.S.] to disregard the science of national defense would expose it to the contempt of its citizens at home and of the world abroad. It would be an attempt to evade bearing our share...
Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia are two seminomadic lands of indefinite status, lying north of China proper and adjoining Manchuria. Last week a whooping pack of Outer Mongolian cavalry swooped into Manchuria and cut the Chinese Eastern Railway at Khailar, near Barin, where four U. S. citizens reside...
President Michael Hainisch of Austria celebrated his 70th birthday, last week at Eichberg, near Vienna, with his mother...
...report happenings factually and completely; most influential, because their reports reach by far the greatest number of people-are what might be called the Straight Reporters, the correspondents of the big news services. This year the Associated Press keeps two men and a woman, the United Press one man, near each Nominee continually. Writing their cautious, colorless reports, these writers are either unsung heroes or stenographic automata...