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...King of Spain could never abdicate in order to avoid dealing with the problems and difficulties presenting themselves." So said Alfonso XIII in a speech after laying the foundation stone of the Library of Fine Arts at Madrid. He made the statement in answer to a newspaper report announcing that he was about to abdicate. " I am not a deserter," he remarked...
Hanihara's determination to avoid questions likely to cause disagreement with the United States. (P.11...
Massanao Hanihara, newly appointed Ambassador to America, has been instructed by Premier Kato, his chief, to do everything possible to cement Japan-American relations. He is to avoid questions likely to cause disagreement...
...avoid confusion and to keep the dances up to schedule a bell will be rung at the beginning of each dance. Cutting-in will be permissible only during the encores. The complete musical program follows...
...sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that Washington never said "avoid entangling alliances". True, no less an authority than Jefferson did say it, but the effect is no longer the same. It is well known that Jefferson was a Democrat, so of course he was prejudiced...