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...both are fearful, neither wants an out and out trial of strength. The cause of the Mongolian difficulties cannot be dismissed with a pat all-explanatory word. Stalin's mechanical-toy enunciation of "capitalism" as the fundamental basis is, to put it mildly, nothing but arrant nonsense. The causes are fundamentally economic; the Soviet has goods to sell and exploitation schemes to promote, and so has Japan. Imperialism can not longer be associated, Marxist fashion, with so-called capitalist countries alone...
...Mabel Eaton of Montclair, N. J. had brought suit for divorce against her husband Warren, charging cruelty. Husband Eaton filed a countersuit, going his wife one better by charging she kicked him while he was bending over a toy last Christmas eve. Seeking custody of their daughter Mabel, 10; and their son Warren Jr., 5, Father Eaton submitted that he is a Methodist, that his wife had announced that that denomination is one with which she would not permit her children to be connected. Mr. Eaton said his wife had brought home atheist pamphlets, schedule of atheist meetings, Karl Marx...
...came to the throne at 59 with many long-cultivated acquaintances among British statesmen, Ed ward VIII is to the Prime Minister and executives of the British Empire almost a stranger - a singularly young-looking man of 41 whom they are accustomed to see pop in at a banquet, toy briefly with cold chicken washed down by Scotch & splash while others chomp the hot roast-beef of Old England, and then, after delivering a brief address...
Just before sailing for Europe last autumn he got an order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...
...colored paper hat Colonial Secretary James Henry ("Jim") Thomas crawled about on the floor teaching his granddaughters how to work an elaborate motor race track and showing his grand sons how to fire toy machine guns. The holiday was a headache only for new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. With a self-appraisal deeper than modesty, Mr. Eden judged himself to be uninformed about the Egyptian Question and, since Egyptian students were daily rioting against the British with increasing violence, took away with him on his country holiday a heavy Foreign Office dossier on Egypt...