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The Chinese Pagoda
Han Dynasty Lion at Lin-Chih, Shantung
The History of Minting in China The Emperor K'Ang Hsi Visits Soochow
Siam's Brave New World Adaptation and Invention in Naturo
Tea Trado in China and its Present Trend
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The Queen chatting with ambulance drivers. During the afternoon
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IN TN this age of secret diplo eles upon which all the parasitic fats have grafted themselves, among the macy, four European great democracies war is already de- newspapermen bask in re-clared and opened against the fase'st and national socialist revolutions, or |putations as purveyors of rather against Italy and Germany, "inside information." Some which must unite all their means of jdefence against the common menace." of them often supply the
Geraud's Politics: Franco nearest thing available to
Andre Geraud of Paris has been
an official statement on cu-writing political news for 22 years
rent events.
The Big Four: Vladimír
or
under the name of "Pertinax." For more than a decuie, at first almost alone among French observers, he Poliakoff,
hus insisted that reborn Germany "Augur," as he signs himself, would bring Europe to a new crisis. Now, 1939, when the crisis i is a newspaperman who stands full blown. Pertinax says its great- out in England-a shrewd, con-est effect on him hus been to spicuously-chinned, bald, Jewish "destroy my humne life and ruin my white Russian. He looks like Mus exercise." solini and is proud of it. He od- Such remark typifles hla divided
the life. Pertinax,
confldunt mirca Mussolini but not Hitler.
He writes for the New York statesmen. Is essentially a home-body. Times, the London Express, Euro-He does much writing at home, en- pean papers, and nearly a hundred joys his gardens.
Pertinax writes Quently in both provincial British papers. He writes books. He will lecture in the United English and French. He directs and States next winter. But the uplest coils "L'Europe Nouvelle" (The New commentary on his reputation is the Europe), a political fact that he is avidly read by the writes also for L'Ordre, the Bait- diplomats themselves. He edits a InDre Sun and This Week. special diplomatic letter for embas- sies and legations,
Right Ofton Enough Augur is not always right--but hej Is right often enough to maintain his reputation and the handsome living that naturally follows.
A naturalised Englishman now, he became a journalist by accident. I happened 20 years ago. He had |escaped from the Bolshevik revolu- tion_in_unsite A newspaper pub- Haher in London asked him to write picee on Russia, and so Augur changed from an engineer to a new
paperman.
Ils motius "Know your man ten years before you need him."
Augur on war:
we
of
review. He
He is slacky, of medium height, carefully dressed. He favours gray suits, a gray homburg hat, and gray gloves.
Pertinax describes his politics as: "France.""
Himself: "A lover of dogs, good food, fine 'French wines and sporis,"
lis meihods: "My good friends telephone, me. The others, I tele- phone."
'Always Propagandist' Captain-Wilhelm-Weiss-a-pater slin, little nun, runs the Nazi party's most important and afficial organ: the Vociklscher Brobuchter Munich, Berlin, and Vienna. Like
ان
Goebbels, Weiss is crippled. He lost a leg during the world war. Like Goering, Weiss holds a number of thics,
"Nothing is inevitable. But are right on the edge of the knife."
Weiss is 47 years old. Friends sný Italian 'Reliablo Man'- he opened the world war by an un- Virginio Gayda, Italian nḥicials authorised shot: At the fortress of will tell you, is not Mussolini's Metz, on hearing that the declaration spokesman. But they usually anid of war had been signed, he caused "Very rellable man, though. Usually the first cannon
to boom
at the has things right."
French-although the, order to fire The fact is, though, that nowhere had not been given, cise in the world is there an in- Always a soldier, he had joined dividual, unattached to the govern- the kaiser's army in 1911. After- ment, to whom so many people look ward he became n journalist, met for indications of government policy, Hitler, in 1922, and shared in early
Caydn, editor of the Giornale Nozi party struggles. d'italia, has in the past two years! Weiss on JournalLam: come to be regarded as the voice of "The National Socialist is never the faselst regime.
exclusively a journalist, but always
He works under a picture of a propagandist, charged with politi Mussolini in an old Roman palace. cal energies His desk is littered with newspapers, ellppings, books.
"The people err who mourn the loss of the so-called freedom of the Gayda on the international situa- press. The German Relch would
never have been able to earry "And the world moreover knows through its tremendous work of re- that, exnetly because of this essener construction if the editors of the of theirs, which elevates the con- German press had been able to seize science and force of the Italian and upon the problems involved in as German nations and overturna the| irresponsible and undisciplined traditional systems of the democra- manner as in former times,
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