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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recovering his startled wits, the Mayor of Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
...realized clearly," said the Voegler-controlled Zeitung "that the Second Dawes Committee will not bring a definite settlement of the Reparations problem, but that a relatively favorable partial solution can be counted upon which will take account of the interests of all concerned. A definite solution of the whole complex problem will be possible only when the United States will consider a re-examination of its War debt demands...
Stationed in the trig military centre of Andover, Hampshire, are some of His Majesty's most gallant officers and whole regiments of British Tommies who have a cocky, engaging eye for women. Last week these connoisseurs were utterly flabbergasted when they learned that Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, D. S. O., who was universally regarded in Andover as "a gentleman, and by gad a sportsman, Sir!" is in fact a transvestite? one of the most remarkable of modern times...
Other articles were by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and George M. Pynchon Jr., two of the East's more advanced amateurs. Royal Dixon, imaginative naturalist, exposed the flight methods of eagles, kites, pelicans and buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...
...confined to prison, for the Dictator assures them that any such punishment will not be inflicted unless he deems it deserved. This is in keeping with the main point of the Decalogue which is that it is absolutely necessary to believe that M. Mussolini is always right. On the whole, the hopeful youths of 1919 seem to have aged rather rapidly...