THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 6, 1939
YALTAH
MENUHIN'S
ROMANCE ENDS
CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO LEAVE THE LEAGUE?
Pressburg, To-day.
The probability that Czecho- Slovakia.would leave the League' of Nations and join the anti- Comintern front was indicated by the Slovak propaganda chief, Dr. Mach, speaking last night at a Slovak mass meeting in Richnovce.
Karl Murgas, leader of the Slovak Hlinka Guards, speaking after Dr. Mach, demanded the exclusion of the Jews and Czecha from Slovak public life. Trans- Ocean.
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STRIP TEASE STOPS PANIC
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The art of Ruth Donald, a strip tease dancer, averted panic among an audience of 600 in a Broadway theatre fire.
She hurried on to the stage and, slowly disrobing, engross- ed all watchers. They did not notice the billowing smoke.
While Ruth strip teased at- tendants went from row to row and tapped members of the audience on. the shoulder and asked them quietly to leave the theatre.
Germany Keeps Up Attack On Pres. Roosevelt
Berlin, Yesterday. President Roosevelt's attitude is aiming at open interference in European affairs, and is therefore a direct betrayal of the Mon- roe Doctrine,” says the Nazi Gazette.
It may safely be assumed that this remark of the semi-official organ, which is published only irregularly and on especially important oc- casions, reflects the official German attitude.
citizens
In its latest edition, which is cruitment of American only the fourth issued thus far, for service as mercenaries in the it recalls the fact that the Monroe Republican Army was permitted Doctrine was recognized by the with complete impunity for European powers because Presid-cruiting agents.
re-
PRESIDENT'S AIMS "According to uncontradicted
ent Monroe had supplemented and justified the doctrine with the as- surance that the United States would on their part too refrain reports the present American Pre- from interference in European affairs.
sident openly aims at enforcing legislation which will allow him to interfere actively in European affairs.
TWICE VIOLATED "After 120 years these princi-
"He wishes to be in a position to ples, which are so advantageous support the so-called Democratic for the United States and which group of states in the event of were accepted by Germany 120 war and to provoke these states years ago and confirmed anew into adopt a hostile and uncom- January, 1939, have been one-promising attitude towards the sidedly violated by two United totalitarian countries.” States politicians whose charac- "President Roosevelt, and the ter is strangely alike, namely, Jewish clique around him," so the President Wilson and President paper adds, "wish to sabotage the Roosevelt,"
Anglo-German, Franco-German The paper points out that the and Anglo-Italian declarations, return to the traditional non-in-and to frustrate hopes for a fair terference policy after the War settlement of the Franco-Italian which was desired by the Ameri- dispute, since these developments can people, was of only brief are not in accordance with their duration.
political alma.".
“SURPRISING · ATTITUDE”, In 1937 the neutrality regula-{ The semi-official organ tions were loosened by President|presses suspicion that the desire Roosevelt through a new law to justify the unauthorised air- which provided that belligerents plane deliveries to France may might obtain war material from be to a considerable part respon- the United States if they paid in sible for the present "surprising cash for purchase and shipment attitude" of the Américan Presi- of this war material.
dent,
NEW LAW.
ex-
"The President and the wire- "It appears to be certain, how- pullers behind him, however, were ever, that fair-minded American not satisfied with this. The God-people reject such manipulations,
·less · Bolshevista in Spain were and that the American people will supported with arms and other sooner or later give expression of material.
their condemnation of the policy." "In great American cities re--Trans-Ocean.
Aged 17--Seven Months Married
Yaltah, youngest of the three Menuhin, children, has separated from her husband, Mr. William Stix, 26-years-old lawyer, of St. Louis, Missouri, after only seven months of marriage.
All three Menuhins-Yehudi, world-famous violin- ist; Hephzibah, a pianist who plays in concerts with her brother; and Yaltah, also a great pian- ist, were married within a few weeks of each other last May and June.
to
Yehudi married Miss Nola Nicho- Since the eldest two were to be las, of Australia; Hephzibah mar- married, the parents consented ried Miss Nicholas's brother; and Yaltah marrying Mr. Stix. Yaltah married Mr. Stix.
Now Yalth has returned to her mother, who admits that the separa- tion may be permanent.
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MOTHER A COSSACK
any of their
TEST FLIGHT
FROM KUNMING
a-
The atmosphere in the household, which was ruled over by the golden- haired Cossack mother and guided
Chungking, To-day. The stage has beent set for a by the intensive little Mosche Menu- test flight between hin the father, has always been so (Kunming) and London, China's. Yunnanfu tolerant that acrimony of any sort new air link with Europe. seems foreign to
It is reliably learned that natures.
plane will leave Yunnanfu for Yaltah was the first really to Rangon on Thursday with Mr. break the family bonds and ask for P. Y. Wong, General Manager of her parents' consent to marry. She the China National Aviation Cor- was then barely 16, and the parents poration. persuaded her to wait.
The official will board another Then Yehudi decided last summer machine and proceed to London. met the previous year.
o marry the Australian girl he had! The flight to Rangoon will take Hephzibah, one day and four additional days though only 17, followed with her to London.-Our Own Correspon-
brother's fiancee's brother.
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