Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your comments on "Questions & Answers" (RUSSIA, p. 13, Dec. 28 issue) are so disingenuous as to make one wonder if sometimes you may not distort the news to suit your purposes. Making a headline that utterly belies the contents of a news-item is an old trick in dishonest journalism. Who, outside of an editor of TIME, could consider the answers that Tchitcherin gave to the questions put before him anything but the essence of frankness, openness and the very opposite of "Machiavellian?" What could be less diplomatic than the answer to the second question, which says in effect...
...found the crater of Vesuvius swarming with billions of ladybugs. . . . I was taken for a Frenchman in Damascus and bombarded with rotten fruit . . . . No wonder! Near there I saw 300 Senegalese soldiers riding along on camels and lashing at the faces of passing Syrians with long whips. A fine way to pacify them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira...
...wonder if you realise that your readers are utterly disgusted with "flaying" and "flayers"? I wish heartily that in the future you return such epistles to their respective writers with a brief note advising them to take a cold bath, which will either cool down their ardor for writing altogether or induce them to rewrite their "stuff" in a gentlemanly manner...
...appointment of the judges and the payment of their salaries. If it is not to stop war, if it will not stop war, or has any tendency to end war and if we will not be bound by anything it does, in case we go in, I wonder what it is all about anyhow and whether it is worth while for the youth of America to get all 'het up' over...
...taken at all seriously, the citizens of the Austrian republic are looking to union with Germany as the ultimate solution for their problems. Thus another ancient anomaly, long an eyesore on the map of Europe, will be no more. Such a possibility need surprise no one. The wonder is only that the mutual interests of tiny Austria and still formidable Germany had not been evident enough to cause comment much sooner after...