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...unanimous votes undertaken to lead the peoples who are Under France's protection to a position where they can manage their own affairs. This solemn promise-can France dream of failing to abide by it? No! These countries, whom France has civilized and enriched, she will not abandon to imperialistic fanaticism which would lead them to the worst type of regression, to a racial segregation and a religious isolation at the very time . . . when they only wish to advance towards peace, security, liberty and prosperity...
...Last week 34-year-old Ron Ledger, newly elected Labor Member for Romford, devoted his maiden speech to a plea for more free nurseries. To give his argument force, he told the story of a certain renegade father and of a mother, pregnant and destitute, who was forced to abandon her three children to the care of an orphanage. "Thirteen years later," said the young Laborite, "one of the children went out into the world . . . and, indeed, is today a Member of this House." At this dramatic point, as his fellow parliamentarians pricked up their ears, Ron Ledger added...
...spice of love). But by novel's end, Jacy has found a Florister's one true love, the theater. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for July, The Flower Girls sprouts eccentrics, melodrama, theater lore, subplots, flashbacks, deaths, alarums and excursions with engaging, old-fashioned abandon. Anyone who plans to while away a lazy summer afternoon with its 629 pages would do well to string up two hammocks, one for himself and another for the book...
...Alas! says Cadart, life is not so easy. The peaceable snail has a host of enemies: the weather, rats, turtles, crows, foxes, ducks, parasitic insects that lay eggs in its flesh, and picnickers who abandon bits of canned heat, which is death to snails. When Cadart has described all the troubles of les escargots, he is close to tears...
...orthodox Shakespearean will be moved by Author Hoffman to abandon his established belief-that Christopher Marlowe was the great pioneer who explored the unknown continent of Elizabethan drama, and that William Shakespeare, following after, bulldozed and occupied that realm with a power and majesty far beyond the strength of his doughty predecessor. Some of Author Hoffman's parallelisms are interesting contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing-that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every...