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Wisecracking wearily along from Tokyo toward Moscow last week. Newsclown Will Rogers paused at Hsinking. the capital of Manchukuo's puppet Emperor to remark:*"This country is so mad at Russia they've broken off the diplomatic relations that never existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Inference oj Battle? | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Will Rogers, newsclown, cabled that he had lunched with Ambassador Dawes, then dined at the embassy after asking that a list of the other guests be first submitted to him as though he were royalty. He also said: "I sat right next to the wives of our delegation [at the opening of the conference]. . . . Mrs. Morrow was telling me what an awful fine son-in-law Lindbergh had turned out to be. . . . When Mr. Stimson said we will stay here till the world disarms, his wife says, 'My Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Conference Asides | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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