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...Riff was ceded to Spain on the express understanding that she keep the turbulent tribesmen in order; needless to state, she has never succeeded in keeping Abd-el-Krim's hoodlums out of mischief. The French command may not send a shell, man, or plane across the border to destroy the Moorish bases, and it would be a very simple task, without violating the treaty agreement. Similarly, they can not blockade the Spanish ports of Morocco to prevent the steady traffic in arms by which the war is continued...
...Wheeler's political career will be forever ruined. Whatever its outcome, his financial resources are certain to be exhausted in the expense of conducting three defenses. Only the charity of the country can save him. That charity, if expended, will not only keep Senator Wheeler from bankruptey, but will destroy the new and dangerous precedent of using the executive departments of the Government for personal or party revenge...
...victories of the early days will be meaningless and in vain, if the rabid Fundamentalists succeed in foisting the chaos of medievalist upon the land. The great advance of civilization in the last fifty years has been due in overwhelming measure to two things which this cataclysm would utterly destroy--intellectual freedom and the advance of science...
Without stopping to cancel the contracts for motorizing the gondolas, chiefly because none had been made, Mussolini hastened to assure his juvenile petitioner that nothing could persuade him to "destroy the peace and quiet which forms one of the chief charms of this wonderful city...
Corrosion. Rust and corrosion annually destroy some $300,000,000 worth of metals. Only lately has their cause been agreed upon. Not direct oxidation by water or air nor colloidal reaction is now blamed, but electricity set up in metals by the chemical action of contiguous water, air or (especially) the two mixed. The currents disintegrate the metals, producing oxides and carbonates?iron rust, verdigris, tarnish, "bronze disease." Dr. Willis R. Whitney, Director of the Research Laboratory of the General Electric Co., is accredited the founder of the electro-chemical theory of corrosion...