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...Rumania's national minorities a just and lawful share in government, whereas they have been exploited and oppressed. Third to debureaucratize and decentralize the Government, granting more authority to provinces and municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate and lenient restrictions...
Told discreetly at the Foreign Office, last week, was the tale of a jest cracked by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, last fortnight, when he and Prime Minister Poincare were earnestly consulting how to reconstruct the fallen Government (i.e., Cabinet...
Elmer Davis, on the other hand, is sufficiently master of the art of human speech to reconstruct the converse of garrulous though ancient Hebrews. It seems that David didn't kill the giant after all. Coming by lucky chance upon dead Goliath, he was clever enough to cut off the giant's head, and claim a superhuman victory. His whole career glittered with similar shrewd opportunism, alternating with cowardly lapses which the loyal Joab covered. Joab did all the killing, David got all the credit...
Striding into the restaurant La Bombilla, General Zertuche proceeded to reconstruct the crime. By his stern order not so much as a plate or saucer had been moved. There was the table at which Mexico's one-armed hero had sat down to luncheon, beaming and bowing amid plaudits. Next to his blood-stained bullet-riddled chair was that upon which had sat Governor Aaron Saenz of Nuevo Leon, conversing jovially with Obregon...
...that the Soviet oil industry has barely attained the pre-War level. He does not add that the Soviet authorities took over Russian oil fields five or six years ago with equipment almost completely destroyed by forces with which Deterding is not entirely familiar. Soviet money was used to reconstruct the industry almost from the bottom up to its present level, and this reconstruction required about...