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...windows of a church or a police-court shiver. He entered suit to obtain the Cathedral and all that went with it. Convinced that by this piece of deference to the curious laws of a quaint country, all that he wanted had automatically accrued to him, he enlisted a Bomb Squad from the Manhattan Police Department, stormed the Cathedral, ousted Platon much as that prelate had previously ousted Kedrovsky. Thereupon Platon's adherents produced whatever axes they had to grind, attacked by night, chopped their way into Bishop Adam's residence, reinstated their leader (TIME, Aug. 10). Justice...
...proved to be the fatal mistake of writing his plea in language that has just the slightest trace of Menckenesque presumption. "We have always thought of college as a spawning ground for individuals," he wrote, "for wrote, "for men who think. Better a radical with a beard and a bomb than a type--a goose-stepper--a man without brains enough or courage enough to declare himself...
...cavalcade clattered into Cetinje, massed crowds lined the streets. Would they accept their new ruler, or would a shot, a knife, a bomb express the hatred of unwilling subjects for their lord? It was a ticklish moment. Steel-nerved, the smiling royalties awaited what was to come. Then suddenly their people knelt and poured forth the ancient greeting of Montenegrin subjects to a Montenegrin King: "Lo, thou art our heavenly sun, our wish, our happiness and our sharp sword...
...reported to have assaulted Damascus, been repulsed by French cavalry, to have prepared for another onslaught, to have captured an outpost. The French fort of Sueida with a garrison of 200 was besieged by the Druse tribe . . . An airplane endeavoring to drop provisions was shot down. Another dropped a bomb on a group of natives, reported 40 killed and wounded. . . A French General was wounded while riding out in his automobile . . . Two caravans of 40 camels each were reported carrying Bedouin dead and wounded to the rear . . . Deir-ez-Zor, city of 20,000, was reported captured by the natives...
Then one day at Sarajevo a bomb blew Francis Ferdinand to bits, and von Hoetzendorf went forth to war. He promptly lost Galicia to the Russians and his prestige waned. But he planned the campaign which resulted in its recapture, and was given the Order of Merit by the Kaiser when Lemberg fell to his advance...