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...statesman should be known by one or two features, not for a variety. Monocle and orchid were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...
That the Chinese knew all about the art of printing long before Gutenburg set up type for his first bible is strikingly evidenced by the little publicized but at the same time one of the most priceless possessions of Widener--a fragment of wood-block engraving from China, designed...
...correspondents what transport planes in China could do to keep from being "mistakenly attacked" in future. Said he sagely: "The best thing they can do is not to be in the air!" Later the spokesman gave the part-German Eurasia line on which Dr. Sun flew safely last week priceless advertising by implying that its planes will continue immune. At once China National Aviation Corp. canceled all flights. Its officials said it might resume business with departures at "secret hours" if customers wanted to buy tickets on that basis...
...where she goes and what she thinks are all available to anybody who can afford a newspaper. Her column, My Day, appears in 75 U. S. newspapers reaching more than 4,000,000 readers. This overpowering demonstration of neighborliness is also, for the President of the U. S., a priceless political asset...
...years Rumanian minorities have been kept. They are now granted elementary civic rights. For the first time they can be elected without racial disqualification to State and civic jobs. The State will lend its support to public schools where teaching is in the minorities' tongues. Most priceless boon: Moslems, Jews, Unitarians, etc. may now enjoy full religious liberty in Rumania...