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...this tug-of-war between Baker Nicolas and Devil Benson, Authoress Benson calls it a draw. Many a reader will agree with her, will sympathize with her bewilderment when she confesses: "I'm uncertain . . whether the Count de Savine is editing me or I him. I am cleverer than he is-I think-but I am not sure whether I see more or understand more. Simply, I say more and I understand that I don't understand...
Presumably Dr. Kiep was under orders from Berlin to keep the new Ambassador from giving an interview, for he chartered a tug, raced down the harbor to beat the newshawks to the Bremen, dashed into the Luther suite, locked the door. When importunate reporters were finally admitted, they beheld Dr. Kiep standing guard over a chunky elderly man whose eyes swept the floor in terrible embarrassment. Ambassador Luther kept saying: "Good morning, gentlemen. I am happy to meet the Press-I am happy...
...bold reporter asked if Dr. Luther was being taken off in a tug to avoid a Jewish anti-Hitler demonstration in Manhattan. Striding forward, Dr. Kiep heatedly exclaimed: "No- No- No- Herr Luther is in a hurry to get to Washington. He has said all he cares to say in this statement." Dr. Kiep pulled a typewritten sheet out of his own pocket. "Here, I'll read it to you. 'Diplomatic etiquet pre-venting...
...desolate heaps. At Artesia another school burned. At San Diego radios went off and the First National Bank's burglar alarm went on. Throughout the area trains had all halted where they were to prevent derailment. In San Pedro Harbor the cruiser Northampton, feeling a sharp tug on her anchor chain, got up steam in readiness...
When? Certainly not until after the U. S. and Britain have made their debt bed and are lying in it, if the Prime Minister has his way. Last week he created a special Cabinet subcommittee of five to tug at Britain's end of the debt sheets. The Big Five: 1) the Prime Minister; 2) the Lord President of the Council, bumbling Stanley Baldwin who negotiated and signed at Washington in 1923 the promise to pay $11,000,000,000 over 62 years, from which Mother Britain has been trying to extricate herself ever since; 3) Foreign Secretary...