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Since the Emperor Napoleon III pacified Cambodia in 1863, inhabitants of that teeming, steaming puppet State in southern French Indo-China have flourished and multiplied under but three kings. Sisowath I, the second of these, died ripely at the age of 87, survived by 800 widows. Stout, chatty Sisowath II, who followed him, made the good-humored best of a job in which the emoluments were determined largely by the necessities of Finance Ministers in Paris...
True, the potato famine did help establish Free Trade. But how about those stout-hearted manufacturers (not industrialists) of Manchester who sacrificed their fortunes and in some cases their lives for the principles of Free Trade long before the fungus struck the potato crop...
...hospital, which consists of 32 small collapsible buildings, can be unpacked and set up in 24 hours. The buildings are jointed and grooved; once they are unfolded and set up require only tightening of a few stout bolts. Each unit is raised "bout a foot and a half off the ground on four zigzag iron legs which stretch like automobile jacks. Windows made of Plexiglas, run head-high around each building, are hinged so they can be pushed out from the bottom. Floors are made of composition rubber, and through the center of the peaked ceilings run electric tubes...
...correspondents in South America watch like hawks the movements of stout, well-fed Baron Edmund von Thermann. German Ambassador to Argentina. But last fortnight he gave them the slip. He suddenly turned up in Santiago, Chile. Even the Chilean Foreign Office was caught off base; it barely had time to get an official to the airport to greet the Ambassador. Baron von Thermann blandly explained that he was traveling unofficially, was on his way to the Chilean lake country for a vacation. He carried a very heavy suitcase...
...carefully conceived plan, his independent leadership in carrying it out, Humanitarian Hoover had stout support from two military men: General John J. Pershing and onetime CINCUS William V. Pratt (U. S. N. retired). Said General Pershing, in a telegram to Chicago: "I have every confidence that the salvation of these people can be worked out along the lines proposed by Mr. Hoover without military loss or benefit to either side." Said Sailorman Pratt (now back on active duty in the Navy), after approving the Hoover plan: "Only America can meet this emergency...