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...created a sensation when they refused to award him the Dutch equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In a brief introduction to Express to the East, den Doolard mentions his months of wandering through Macedonia, "sometimes thirsty and penniless and dirty, sometimes drinking iced plum brandy in the luxurious restaurant wagon of the Orient Express," hints that he has taken part in the activity of the organization he describes. Noting his detailed account of conspiratorial methods, it is a likely conclusion that den Doolard did not get his knowledge of them exclusively from books. The story revolves around Milja Drangov, slender...
...Paris, as Premier Laval boarded a wagon-lit for Geneva, he snapped positively, "Peace will be made! It will be made despite malevolent indiscretion, spiteful controversies and misleading reports...
...Conservative constituency at Birmingham and went the whole hog in fulsome praise of portly Squire Baldwin whose hobby is raising pigs. All last year Colonel Amery and Mr. Churchill fought the Prime Minister from within his Party on the India Bill. "Winnie" leaped for the band wagon in plenty of time (TIME, Sept. 2) while Colonel Amery last week was called "too late...
...Frenchmen of the right to carry firearms without a permit and aim, somewhat feebly, to end the recent series of "surprise Fascist mobilizations" by making prior notice and police consent necessary for public assemblies. Since the Fascists can easily find private property on which to meet and a hay-wagon from which Leader de La Rocque likes to speak (see cut, p. 26), Paris' Fascist Echo de Paris could clarion last week: "The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse- the decree laws. This formality does not present many difficulties. How is the private citizen going...
...Saturday the Yale News gave fits approval in an editorial which we reprint in another column to Princeton's newly planned library declaring that Princeton is not just "hitching her wagon to a star...