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Emperor Haile Selassie, who looks like an Old-Testament-bearded Spanish Jew, is a great fixer. He is said to have poisoned his way to the throne (TIME, Oct. 8, 1928). As he tyrannically and ably rules his hot-blood-swilling Abyssinians (meaning "mixed peoples") he is careful to keep...
"If the great German historian Mommsen characterized Jewry as a ferment of decomposition in the life of nations," tie proclaimed, "then decomposition in Germany is far advanced. ... If, therefore, National Socialism with ferocious determination fought against the stealthy collapse of the Occident, it did so in recognition of the not...
Child bride & child groom statistics for the nuptial year just closed were released recently by the Court of His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore. His Highness, a frequent visitor to the law-breaking Occident, thought it quite all right to publish child marriage statistics, despite the fact that by law...
Chief blame for race troubles in Hawaii was placed by Admiral William Veazie Pratt on the "beach boys"?half-castes hired to instruct tourists in swimming and surfboard riding. These brown bucks, it was explained, do not understand the easy familiarity between the sexes sanctioned in the Occident. They...
Softly Mr. Pei next breathed a threat that if Occidental countries do not cooperate with China in rehabilitating silver she may retaliate by an embargo against all silver imports. Today China buys more silver than any other country, and the Occident is anxious to sell. But Threatener Pei hastily added that China is still open, wide open, to any and all favorable offers. These he proposed to crystallize by calling under I. C. C. auspices an International Silver Conference later this year. In 48 hours this Pei plan was whipped into shape?Senator King of Utah (silver State) aiding?...