It was a wonderful Easter week-end— wonderful in more than one respect for it was full of contrast. Shanghai enjoyed a temperature of 82 degrees on Sunday and the pleasant sunshine lured many people to seek the few green spots in this imprisoned district to com-june with nature instead of, the products of the concrete architectural age, supporting Marvell in Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
But the world picture differed violently in producing pleasant results on a hallowed day. Paris enjoyed bright, but cool weather. In Berlin there were violent snowstorms which made people suspect something had gone wrong with the calendar. In Palestine, the Holy Land. there was bitter civil commotion in many points and more than 60 people lost their lives in disturbances jarring with significance of the day and the particularly intimate geographic and historical connections of the country with the religion which found birth there. Unhappy China benefitted not one whit from the festival for Hankow and other points came in for unusual attention from Japanese aeroplanes. In Germany, it was reported that a developing movement to give Easter a greatly changed character found widespread expression. Politically, there were cheerful results for the signing of the Anglo-Italian agreement on Ssturday. whereby the sources of friction between the two nations are hoped to be removed, provided London newspapers with the thought that it was a happy Easter egg for European politics.
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