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Swede on Palestine. In Stockholm Judge Loefgren, chairman of the League of Nations Wailing Wall Commission, accused Jews of forgetting Britain's promises to the non-Jewish population of Palestine. "It may be," he declared, "that two promises equally valid are simultaneously impossible of fulfillment." (i.e. Britain may have promised both Jews and Arabs more than she can give them both at once...
...black taffeta gown, drew about her shoulders a soft chinchilla wrap upon which blazed the Soviet Order of the Red Star, stepped into a Royal Coach. The equipage was that of Gustaf V, King of the Swedes. At a merry clip Comrade Kollontay whirled through the streets of Stockholm, alighted at the Palace, tripped in and handed to gangling, venerable King Gustaf her credentials as Soviet Minister to Sweden. Before and after her appointment as Minister to Mex ico, she was Minister to Norway. She rates as one of the keenest, most beguiling diplomats on earth...
...than $75,000,000 to philanthropies. Preceding each of his gifts went a long period of secret investigation and discussion. His announcements have always struck the staff of his Eastman Kodak Co. "as unexpectedly as lightning." Last week Eastman lightning struck again, this time in Sweden. Mr. Eastman gave Stockholm $1,000,000 to build a model dental dispensary and clinic...
...Stockholm dental clinic will be Mr. Eastman's fourth institution of the sort. First and model for the others is at Rochester, N. Y., his hometown, recipient of more than half his philanthropies. The Rochester Dental Dispensary was started in 1917 under direction of Dr. Harvey Jacob Burkhart, 69, onetime (1899) president of the National Dental Association, two-time (1902-04, 1915-16) mayor of Batavia, N. Y. Dr. Burkhart, who has Mr. Eastman's unqualified trust, arranged the organization of the other two Eastman dental institutions-at London and Rome. He is to buy all their equipment...
...Rochester man in the needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later Mr. Eastman instructed Nils Bouveng, Eastman Kodak Co. representative in Europe and a native of Stockholm, to escort Dr. Burkhart on an inspection of dental facilities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark...