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...British Foreign Office that if it is to be prevented, by the Monroe Doctrine, from following its normal policy in dealing with backward countries in such affairs, then the least the U. S. can do is to see to it that the natives maintain a decent regard for Anglo-Saxon property rights...
What regard the natives had for Anglo-Saxon property rights was last week fairly evident. Waving tiny Mexican flags, 200,000 of them paraded in Mexico City to celebrate their "Declaration of Economic Independence," hail the departure of los Gringos from the oil fields. But if President Lazaro Cárdenas enjoyed the parade, he was not amused by the U. S. silver embargo. Seriously he proclaimed to his people: "We must draw together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy...
...Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children of Strangers, Fabulous New Orleans), whose guide to New Orleans was complicated by the difficulty of writing about the city's famed red-light district, without giving names and addresses. For Arizona the State director was laconic Novelist Ross Santee, one-time cowboy and rodeo performer. For Texas...
Greying Arnold Bernstein, 47, son of an oldtime Saxon shipper, served with distinction as a German artillery officer during the War, was decorated with the Iron Cross, First Class. Back in Germany after the War he evolved the scheme of fitting modern freighters with automobile elevators so that U. S. cars could be exported to Europe uncrated and unscratched. So successful was this that Bernstein "floating garages'' have long carried over 60% of all U. S. automobile exports, made enough money for sole Owner Arnold Bernstein to allow him to buy out the American-Belgian-British Red Star...
Like all virtuosi, he is the recipient of a good deal of criticism, both deserved and undeserved, and there is no doubt that many of its interpretations are not entirely pleasing to our Anglo-Saxon ears. Some listeners would prefer more contemporary works--others would not venture beyond Debussey. But in the main, he manages to do an admirable job of pleasing everyone and there are few indeed who do not thoroughly enjoy any of the series of five concerts to which they may subscribe...