Mrs. Helen Wills Moody n-time safely reached the fifth round of th to win ihe title an eighth time, Hei South African champion, whose Wimbledon champion, has now e women's singles in her at empt T latest victim is Miss Miller, the backhand proved vulnerable. breath? Or why it is that for Englishmen, Americans or Frenchmen, and not for Russians, plays Sergei Rachmaninoff, composers Igor Stravinsky and battles on the chess-field Dr. A. Alekhin? Or why one of ihe greatest living men in the realm of chemistry, Prof. Ipatieff, whose books are known to all who study the subject, works in a huge concern in Chicago and not in Moscow, why working with him in the same city—working for the advance of American seience—are many young Russian scientists, among them a former member of the local Russian colony, Dr. Aristid Grosse, son of the late Russian Consul-General, V. F. Grosse? Or why the first constructor of those flying giants, the heavier-then-air machines, Igor Sikorsky, today has a colossal factory near New York and not near. St, Petersburg, where a Quarter of a century ago he timidly started his first experiments? And the irony of it is that Russia is at present buying. the latest of his Clippers—buying them from foreign hands when she might have had them, so to speak, free. Or, again, why Gen. (and Prof.) N. N. Golovin, whose fame as a specialist in military strategy has spread over the whole of Europe, has opened his courses of the military sciences in Paris, instead of developing a system of national defence in Russia, for Which purpose he is endowed with such exceptional talents hose questions could be asked indefinitely, They are puzzling para-doxas that disturb every emigrant who has a conscience and in whose breast glows the flame of healthy In the
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