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...Virginia. It read: "There has been left on my desk a copy of Liberty, dated April 28, containing what purports to be an interview with me by Sidney Sutherland on the subject of the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. I desire to warn you that the purported interview, almost from the beginning to the end of it, is inaccurate and largely fictitious. ... I have usually managed to think and talk as a gentleman should and to use the English language in a fairly measured way, whereas your Mr. Sutherland has put into quotations...
...governments of the world ever since the Open Door policy was adopted. Much as the abstract principle of liberty appeals to publics of every land, it would be almost too inconsistent for England to turn from her Egyptian "problem" or the United States from its Nicaraguan campaign to warn Japan out of Manchuria. But altruism by proxy is a favorite virtue of governments, and may yet save China from her neighbor...
...harmoniously does this declaration chime with the views of Secretary Kellogg that last week British editors began to warn British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain not to let himself be outsmarted by Dr. Stresemann in securing the goodwill of the U. S. Sir Austen, obviously embarrassed, soon made an unfortunate public allusion at Birmingham to the "unwisdom of sacrificing old friends to gain new ones." Thereupon he was heavily taken to task by the Olympian London Times, which usually supports him but declared last week: "The French position is specifically and narrowly French. . . . British opinion in this country...
...customer's man (or woman) is the liaison officer between the customer and the Stock Exchange floor. His function is to tip, advise, caution, stimulate, warn customers, in other words to provoke trading and "produce" commissions...
Last week Dictator Stalin, speaking through Pravda, strove to warn both peasants and industrials that they imperatively must increase sowing and production if economic Russia is not to perish in a dwindling vicious circle. By way of striking a note of cheer, Pravda observed that the peasants are not hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet...