Foreign News: State Secret Betrayed

On his visit to President Hoover, snowy-crested James Ramsay MacDonald created a profound impression, won literally millions of friends by the simple yet often thrilling words in which he voiced love of Peace, devotion to God, and perhaps most moving of all to city dwellers, his deep, countryman's joy in Nature, in "the rushing waters and softly sighing trees of your Rapidan."

Would so poetical, peace-loving a gentleman ever order a "third degree?" The mere notion of such a thing profoundly shocked the Prime Minister's friends last week, but he did give certain orders....

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