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...Korea, Mexico and Brazil the National Methodist churches will be in "competition" with national Presbyterian churches. The Presbyterians have been the most active of U. S. denominations in nationalizing their missions. There are Presbyterian churches of Persia, India and China. In China this church per se is nominal. It has only 17,000 communicants. There is a reason. Some years ago most Chinese Presbyterians decided to merge with other Protestants in China to form the Church of Christ in China (communicants now 120,000). Dissident Presbyterians keep up the old church organization. Presbyterians are the most potent Protestants in China...
Last week Arthur Upham Pope, director of the Exhibition, returned to London from Persia in high feather, announced results of his foray. Concurrently was released news of the nature, extent and magnitude of the greatest Persian art exhibition ever held...
Month ago news reached Angora (Turkish capital) that the Kurds, a warlike backward race inhabiting a region which overlaps both Turkey and Persia, had risen in rebellion against the reforms of Turkish Dictator Mustapha Kemal Pasha. They had declared a Holy War. Dictator Kemal knew what to do. He ordered 15,000 regular troops, 15,000 reserves and Turkey's entire air force to the front, commanded them to exterminate without mercy every single Kurdish rebel...
...President Hoover appointed Hoffman Phillip, career diplomat, onetime Minister to Persia, to be Minister to Norway. Selected last week as Minister to Egypt was William M. Jardine. onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture...
...confused with her cousin. Princess Antoine Bibesco (nee Elizabeth, daughter of Margot Asquith), was born in Rumania, daughter of Jean Lahovary, onetime Rumanian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was educated in France. At 16 she married Prince Bibesco, head of the Bibesco family, accompanied him to Persia on a diplomatic mission. Like others of the Rumanian nobility, most notably Queen Marie, the Bibescoes will turn an adulant dollar out of democratic pockets. Princess Bibesco's first book, the Eight Paradises, written when she was 18, was crowned by the French Academy. Other books : Alexander Asiatique, Isvor, Catherine-Paris...