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Macedonia, always a hotbed of intrigue with an indescribably mixed population, is now the storm center of the civil war. Bulgaria, deprived of a Mediterranean port after the World War, is hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled...
...present instance, but also last fall when a new bond issue was put on the market. Moreover, it is wise to remember that if a lieutenant of the President speaks assertively enough to antagonize any group, it is a simple matter to send him to Florida, the bird and ex-official sanctuary...
...clad Soviet legislators," etc. Glad to see mention made of said smells. . . . The Russian atmosphere is saturated with the most nauseating and depressing smell it has been my nasal experience to have witnessed. During many days there in the spring of 1933, I was unable to find a single bird in the stench-saturated atmosphere and found each breath inhaled sickening...
...Aidez-vous et le ciel vous aldera." Kenneth T. Bird...
...warfare, Paraguay feels apparently that nothing is to be gained by arbitration. Her army at Villa Montes holds a strategic position relative to Bolivia's oil fields Even though she has broken the League covenant thus theoretically exposing herself to international coercion, Paraguay, it would seem, prefers the bird in hand to the possible outcome of the League's peaceful settlement...