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...alone, but may decide the destiny of the Empire. Japan must take this opportunity to free herself from unfavorable restrictions." In Geneva Japan pulled wires to force the withdrawal of Dr. Rajchman as financial adviser to China. Fearful of a show-down on Japan's new position as "Protector of the East" the League knuckled under. It intimated that Dr. Rajchman will not return to China. Nanking. In all this prattling over China few paid any attention to the real interests of that vast sprawling helpless country. Nanking, impotent against Japan's armies, had one obvious weapon...
...hard to know what to give a man"), the lady snares dissolute Nathan Gifford (Eliot Cabot). Unhappily, the lady's daughter, fresh from a French convent, decides to get Mr. Gifford for herself. She does. Her mother seeks temporary solace in the familiar arms of her longtime protector...
Driven out by her former protector, the janitor of Harvard Hall, Sarah, Yard eat and mouser extraordinary, is now anticipating a blessed event under the sponsorship of the Stoughton janitor. Sarah has been biologically different of late and a brood of kittens is expected within the next two weeks. Her former protector drove her out, not desiring the confusion and flurry always attendant up on childbirth. The Stoughton janitor, however, a farsighted and economically-minded man, has plans in store for the brood. He will expect them to earn their unkeep by being rented out for mousing throughout the Yard...
...shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give the manuscript to the Tsar as protector of their church. In return the Tsar gave the monastery $3,500, the abbot and other dignitaries decorations. Last week this trash basket manuscript, now the famed Codex Sinaiticus, was bought by the British Museum for $511,250 (?100,000) from the Soviet Government. Under secrecy and heavy guard...
This neglect of the homemaking angle of womanhood seems almost unprecedented in view of the fact that the author stresses an particularly in her introduction the fact that woman is "primordial force..continuer, protector, preserver of life, instinctive, active, thoughtful, ever bringing thought back from sterile spectulation to the center of life and work". Does it not seem true that woman as a homemaker, not as a political leader, is carrying out the idea of primordial force? Woman's place in the past was always in the home and it was there that she exerted her influence. Now it seems...