CHINA: Again, Chao Kung

A "man no country wants," for most of his 60 years, has been Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln. In his day he has been accused of enough dark deeds to get a whole portfolio of Oppenheim characters hung. Born a Hungarian Jew. he added the Lincoln to his name, he said, in admiration for the Great Emancipator. He went to England, somehow became a Presbyterian missionary, turned himself into an Anglican curate, made himself a Quaker when he was secretary to Quaker B. Seebohm Rowntree (cocoa). Trebitsch Lincoln, before World War I, got himself elected M. P. for Darlington,...

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