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Died. Liza Hardoon, 78, reputedly the wealthiest woman in the Orient; in Shanghai. A Chinese, she was the blind, recluse widow of Silas Aaron Hardoon, a Jew from Bagdad who rose from night watchman in an opium warehouse to possessor of a fortune of some $50,000,000, most of it Shanghai real estate. Hardoon turned Buddhist, built a private temple within his high-walled estate...
Kindneas rather then severity was his falling. He simply could not resist ability in a student, and there was nothing he would not and did not do for the possessor of it--by the expenditure of time or money, admiration or cigars...
...long & hard about the universal panic, had found a simple explanation: "The abuse of force terrifies the one who commits it more than the victim. . . . Only a government with . . . no fear will be able to see through the illusion of force . . . and to understand that . . . force will injure its possessor more than its victim...
...disease; at his country estate in Surrey, England. Educated at Eton and the officers' school at Woolwich, he ascended the Siamese throne in 1925. For nearly ten years he ruled eleven and a half million subjects who knew him as "Brother of the Moon," "HalfBrother of the Sun," "Possessor of the Four-and-Twenty Umbrellas." Six years ago he abdicated his throne on the refusal of the Cabinet to accept his demands for constitutional reform...
Last week the proud possessor of a new importance, he ejaculated: "I want to take this opportunity to thank the Hearst newspapers. ... I shall always do what I think best...