IRAK: Shots at Crane

A great U. S. friend of small and backward peoples is Charles Richard Crane. Quite a trifle of his money went to help Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk found the new state of Czechoslovakia.*

All the squalid little Near Eastern states know that Mr. Crane was their friend as American Commissioner on Mandates in Turkey (1919); and he was a most popular U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). Throughout the U. S. almost any dainty faucet, bathroom jigger or giant sewer valve is apt to bear the...

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