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Unlike all other Chinese forces, Feng's army has never lived by plunder. When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts. Delighted and dazzled, the local farmers are usually all too glad to barter rice and other produce for the soldier's work...
...with these books' of pure Soviet origin are three others: 1) The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky,* presenting the exiled Jew Militarist's passionate case against Gentile Dictator Stalin; 2) Incredible Siberia* wherein a Chicago Daily News correspondent hears U.S. drummers' jokes told in ultima thule smoking cars; and 3) The Mind and Face of Bolshevism† still the latest and most potent Teutonic indictment of Soviet culture. Flayed in the latter book is the famed epic poem of Bolshevism, 150 Million, .by Comrade Poet Maiakovski...
...emblems of his sovereignty and coats of arms of the Empire, the Hapsburg dynasty. Upper and Nether-Austria, Styria, and Lombardy, together with heraldic lions and an eagle, the latter holding in his beak a ribbon with the letters A. E. I. O. U. (Austria Erit in Orbe Ultima)--the Emperor's favorite motto. His long flowing hair and delicate, refined lines of his aristocratic face heighten the ornate, romantic aspect of the whole composition. When we remember that it was during the weak reign of Frederick III that the decay of the medaeval imperial power approached its climax...
...remote and ultima Thulish is Mongolia, the land which partially bounds China on the north, that last week the following delayed courier despatch loomed in the North China Herald as hot news...
...Roman Catholic training that means so much to New York's progressive Governor, now bids fair to bar him from the politicians' ultima thule, the President's chair. In the South, Alabama's Catholic-baiting Senator Heflin of the untiring lungs, leads a chorus of Pope-fearing Protestants, others, more tolerant, seeing what power the Catholic Church holds over the minds of their Irish cooks and nursemaids, wonder whether any Roman Catholic can be an unbiased and independent servant of the State. Last week, two sober magazines, the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic approached...