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Into the Free City of Danzig steamed a train and off got the League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig, His Excellency Seán Lester, greeted only by Mrs. Lester and their dog. The dog leaped up and frisked about while Danzig Nazis stolidly stared at Seán Lester with hate in their blue eyes. Patting his dog on the head, the High Commissioner cracked in German at the Nazis, "Thank you, Meine Herren. Thank you for this warm welcome...
...despair the League's Seán Lester penned a report saying that Nose-Thumber Greiser's Senate had refused even to answer questions by the High Commissioner as to what was supposed to be the constitutional basis for their arbitrary Nazi decrees. Unanswered Mr. Lester then took his wife and dog fishing...
Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, the Argentine recalled in rosy terms the "Stimson Doctrine" of simply not recognizing that Japan has made a great conquest in China and dominates Manchukuo (TIME, March 28, 1932). According to Señor Cantilo this Stimson Doctrine could well be applied today not only to Manchukuo but also to Ethiopia -its great attraction to harassed statesmen being that it enables them to give an imposing name to doing nothing and omitting year after year to make up their minds...
...jailbird in drab prison garb only five months ago was Spanish Minister of Labor Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhoo-i). By last week Madrid elevators had not run for two months and stair-climbers were getting ugly. Abruptly Señor Lluhi settled the elevator operators' strike, by having the elevator owners seized and jailed until they yielded to the operators' demands for higher...
...Robert's horse was originally called Demijohn, or John. A Negro groom, leading him from his stable into the sunlight, was so delighted with the sheen of his coat that he cried: "Doggone, hoss-you ain't no plain John! You'se John the Baptist." John the Baptist's half-sister is Salome...