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Readers of TIME will enjoy this characteristic bit of repartee attributed to the "venerable Baron Dewar, who claims that whiskey is his muse...
...Most of these people have not had a new stitch of clothing or a new pair of shoes since the General Strike, two years ago. . . . Maybe they listened a bit to the Bolshevik then, but that's all over now. . . . There's no fight left in any of them. All they want is a chance to work so they can eat. . . . Nobody steals around here. There's nothing to steal. Half the people haven't a table or a chair-had to sell them to buy bread...
...Sixpenny-bit 12? Wolfhound
Threepenny-bit 6? Hare
...Rumania, bearded Miron Cristea, presiding in his twinkling medieval mitre. Lustily sang the new peasant Deputies and Senators, clad in immaculate white homespun blouses and white legging trousers. For them the Te Deum was a stately song of triumph. Good honest fellows-some could not forbear to skip a bit for joy as the procession moved from Cathedral to Parliament. There it was quickly seen how complete had been the triumph of Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu at the Parliamentary elections completed last week. Of :he 376 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 561 are now held by Maniu peasants...