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...shoot it out over Manchuria focused the world's eye on Moscow one day last week. Mist shrouded the Red Square. Through wisps of white the pointed towers of the Kremlin looked down like medieval alchemists in tall, peaked hats; at one corner of the flat-topped red granite tomb of LENIN stood Dictator Joseph Stalin, the Red War Lord?if he should choose to declare...
...wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A quiet glance at the Indian wikiup in Vice President Curtis' office. More formal calls, and Premier Laval moved into the White House for 18 hours of residence and sweating work. On the third day Guest Laval moved to stop overnight at Woodley, sylvan retreat of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. There the work, ceaseless and secret, went...
...down into the woods and kills himself. His death is a shock to Matthias, to his friend Timberlake, to Natalie; Garth's memory haunts them. Moved by a common impulse, Natalie and Timberlake meet at the place where Garth died - a great rock that looks like an Egyptian tomb, with a hole in it that looks like a door. They confess they love each other, and Matthias sees them. When Matthias accuses her, Natalie is honest with him, tells him she has always loved Timberlake. They try to patch things up; Timberlake goes away. One day after a quarrel...
...mitigate tariff barriers, aid in disposing of the products of both countries. MM. Laval & Briand dined with Chancellor Brüning at the German Chancellery, lunched with Dr. Curtius, paid a morning visit to Old Paul von Hindenburg and, before returning to Paris, laid a wreath on the tomb of Brer Briand's old friend and fellow peace worker, Gustav Stresemann. Talk of M. Laval's impending visit to the U. S. (see p. 11), and of the possibility that Herr Brüning would go too. almost obscured the whole Franco-German gesture...
...anxious days of the Hoover Moratorium, Germany's financial crisis and the first emergency credit for Britain, the House of Morgan, France's bank in the U. S., was as silent as the tomb of Tutankhamen. Observers noted how quickly the name of Morgan popped into the headlines now that there was no question of conflicting with French policies. Morgan headed the list of 110 U. S. banks which underwrote the U. S. half of the loan. Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, Deputy Controller of Finance, flew to Paris and arranged details of the other $200,000,000 with...