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...niggardly bargainers if we meet the generous friendship which is near and dear to our hearts. We no longer talk of holding the gorgeous East in fear, but ask India to march side by side with us in fruitful, harmonious partnership which might create the greatest and proudest days of Indian history...
...THREE HOSTAGES?John Buchan* ?Houghton ($2.00). Three were kidnapped?the daughter of the richest man in the world, the heir of the proudest English dukedom, the child of a national hero. Sir Richard Hannay, unraveler of mysteries, is called from his Cotswold cottage to find them. Matching his wits against those of a fascinating villain, he culls clues from the subconscious mind and follows his quarry through a series of extraordinary episodes, finally stalking for a night and a day over the sinister and mist-wrapt Highlands of Scotland. Aside from its indisputable ability to excite, this work contains...
...Liberty engines), this aristocratic bird has wings and body of duralumin-a new alloy, light as cork, strong as steel. It carries four passengers, has a special compartment for golf clubs and other week-end breakables. It will go 130 m. p. h., ten times as fast as the proudest, the tallest sailing yacht of bygone days...
Vienna, once the proudest of cities has now become so unimportant that the Swedish Riksdag decided, in the interests of economy, to withdraw the Swedish Legation. It is more thar 200 years since Sweden decided to be represented at the great Habsburg Court; and the recent decision of the Swedish Riksdag was hotly contested and denounced by the Opposition...
...work for universal peace, isn't it a task worthy of the greatest souls and the proudest courages ? Rome of the Caesars attempted it when she was queen of the universe. May Europe of today accomplish...