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...usual tall glasses of smoking hot tea without which ponderous Judge Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich and pouncing Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky could never have got through all the years in which they have gradually worked up from Communist obscurity to the reputation of having convicted and sentenced to Death more statesmen than any other team of justice in the world. There was even plenty of tea for the prisoners, and the Soviet Supreme Court has always functioned amid a blue haze of Russian cigaret smoke...
Under the law of 1917, as administered by the Cardenas Government, Mexican statesmen claim to be gradually "restoring" the country's lands to what they claim was the "communal status" of these lands centuries ago, prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors and their land-lordly Church. Today the Mexican peasant who is set down by the Government on a piece of land retains title to it only so long as he and his direct descendants live and continue to work it, after which the land automatically reverts to the "Mexican community...
...nice long talks in which many Chinese generals joined. Thus the kidnappee & kidnapper sought to exercise in Chiang's village birthplace a joint moral and political leadership of China, seemingly with the intention that Chinese capitalists in the coastal cities and the more or less bureaucratic statesmen of the Government at Nanking should awaken to the "advantages" of teaming up with the potent Chinese bandit Communist armies for war with Japan...
...Shanghai rumor was to the effect that the Government was going to be reshuffled in a Communist direction, with increasingly radical Chinese statesmen being given more and more influential posts. Although Japanese were extremely nervous, watching Chinese developments catlike, their Embassy spokesman in Shanghai said: "I do not think the situation will immediately take a serious turn. Remember that Chiang Kai-shek only got where he is today by pursuing a strong anti-Communist program, and we do not believe he will become sincerely proCommunist. Nor do we think the Soviets will give him much aid, because his anti-Communist...
...excluding the wise cracking of Mr. Westbrook Pegler are concentrated with considerable unanimity on the current extra-curricular activities on the Iberian peninsula. And with all the nations of the continent winning battles on the playing fields of Spain, with British battleships clearing their decks and with British statesmen expressing "concern", the Dagos are providing very sensational entertainment indeed...