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...Duke of Sutherland, who then owned 19 deer forests comprising 396,175 acres, offered half his lands at $10 an acre. Catch is that Scottish deer forests are mostly in the Highlands. At least 2,000,000 acres of the lands are so high and rocky that they could never be farmed. They are not, however, wholly unproductive. As private parks they are heavily taxed, and when the hunting season is on thousands of sportsmen drop thousands of pounds into the coffers of thrifty Scottish tradesmen. To shoot Scottish deer (and grouse) huntsmen spend some $3,500,000 annually...
...have breathless U. S. socialites bug-eyed as he described his escape from a Bolshevik prison. Jailed while assisting prisoners during the Russian Revolution, Consul Reinhardt day by day watched Chinese guards lead away some of his companions to be executed, waited for his own turn to come. It never did. Instead "a very beautiful young lady, wrapped in furs" guided Herr Reinhardt and cell mates to two waiting limousines, sped them to a hideout, kept them supplied with food. Later the Consul learned that his rescuer was a Jewish girl friend of late potent Bolshevik Grigory Zinoviev...
...ordeal. The Royal couple passed down the line, exchanging a few words with each man and woman. Their remarks reflected their own condition: "You must be tired. . . . You must be simply dead. . . . You must be glad you are going home. ..." A woman reporter told the Queen that she had never seen anyone with the power to give such happiness. The Queen blushed, murmured her thanks. "It is very kind of you to say that about my wife," added the King...
Neville Chamberlain invited himself to the conferences culminating at Munich, and took great pride in having preserved "peace in our time." But Nazis never thanked him for handing them Czechoslovakia on a platter. Instead, they have poured hatred on his head. Last week came the unkindest cut of Nazi ingratitude. Supersoapboxing Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addressed a meeting of 15,000 students and workers in Berlin's vast Sportspalast after the news had been broken that, since the Polish Government has banned seasonal emigration of farm hands into Germany, German students will be drafted to work...
...Khan, conqueror of an empire that stretched from Korea to East Prussia, died in 1227, all witnesses of the funeral procession that bore his body home to his native valleys were killed, lest the people learn of his death. As a result, Western archeologists hunted for them but have never known for sure where the Khan's bones rest. One story is that he was buried under a great tree and that picked warriors stood guard until a forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance of a silver coffin...