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...Medicine," as the blurb sings, "has taken R. S. to the four corners of the earth": to Serbia (typhoid epidemic), France (World War I), Russia (famine and cholera), Mexico, China. In Serbia he met a Bishop who entertained himself each morning by taking shots at an old rabbit on the hillside. He wouldn't let R. S. shoot; he was afraid R. S. might hit the rabbit. On the boat to Mexico he made friends with Hart Crane, "a generous, warmhearted person, obviously drinking hard because of intense unhappiness." R. S. loved liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk...
...chasing Karl von Wiegand hoped for a scoop. In 1914 he was rebuked by U. P. for wasting money on a 138-word cablegram-on Austria-Hungary's ultimatum to Serbia. Later he had something to say on behalf of Italy in Ethiopia, Japan in China, the Rebels in Spain. He hoped last week that nearly victorious Hitler would have something sensational...
World War I was the first war in history in which guns were more deadly than germs. Battlefield deaths totaled 8,000,000; deaths from disease, 3,000,000. Yet, despite the great achievements of medical science, disease was still a potent wartime killer. In 1914, typhus swept through Serbia, spread to Russia, where, in four years, it killed 3,000,000 peasants...
...Allied-German duel for Yugoslav trade the Nazis appeared the winners of round one. The Germans forced Yugoslavia to recognize (in principle) pre-World War I debts incurred by Serbia and by the old Austrian province of Bosnia, now in Yugoslavia. Remarkable feature of this agreement was that neither debt has been serviced since 1914, and that both were virtually considered as having lapsed. To pay off the "debts," Yugoslavia will presumably offer goods...
...miles from Rome to the heel of Italy to get a 200-word story whose chief item of interest was that the Italian remount service was inspecting the local donkeys. In July 1914, Karl von Wiegand cabled the U. P. 138 words on the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia and was called down for wasting tolls...