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...Socialist party, Senator Henri Rolin, stubbornly fighting Minister of Justice Adolphe van Glabbeke over a secondary juridical matter, who brought about the downfall of Premier van Acker's Government. When Van Acker demanded a vote of confidence, hotheaded Rolin and two other Socialists abstained, and the Government was overthrown 79-to-78. Smiling Achille beamed: "I am the happiest of men; all my worries are over...
...Soviet Russia feel ill-rewarded for her efforts in the war? Let her not forget that her "two tremendous antagonists" were overthrown, that "Japan was overthrown almost entirely by American arms [and that] Russia recovered almost without striking a blow all that she lost to Japan 40 years...
Whatever gods occupied Japan was turning to, they were not the overthrown gods of State Shinto. At the Grand Shrine of Ise, during the New Year's festival, only 80,000 worshippers appeared; in previous years 400,000 came. At the famed Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya, where once 2,000,000 made their pilgrimage, the number dropped...
After 35 years in captivity, Koreans rejoiced to see their Japanese rulers overthrown. But last week, chafing under two sets of liberators, they were jar from that independence "in due course" which the U.S., Britain, China and Russia had jointly promised. From Seoul, TIME Correspondent John Walker cabled...
Donald's career as a powerful oriental factotum began with Sun Yatsen. After his successful revolution had overthrown China's 300-year-old Manchu dynasty in 1911, Dr. Sun needed someone to communicate his ideas, help work out his plans. Donald became his adviser. A newspaperman, he had arrived in China in 1902, via Sydney's Daily Telegraph, to go to work for Hong Kong's China Mail. He was Shanghai correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald when Dr. Sun heard about him. Donald, profoundly moved by the revolution...