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Like Mr. Joyce Mr. Ellis will still be accessible to the studious minded, but if any of the pages disappear, boys, we know who took them...
...Crusades, but it differs from all predecessors in its class by demanding a cerebral rather than an emotional response. Its climax is reached not when two lovers are reunited but when an unmarried couple (Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers) more interested in the cosmos than in each other disappear from the screen in the direction of the moon, thus causing the President of the World, Raymond Massey, to state the Wellsian moral: ''All the Universe or nothingness-which shall...
...have seen our ancient friendship and our valuable trade with Italy disappear, never to return. Who knows what else Mr. Eden is up to? Who knows what meddlesome trouble Public Liability No. 1 is hatching in the seclusion of the Foreign Office? What may he not be saying to this Ambassador or that? What folly or danger is there into which the egocentricity of a somewhat superior person with no discretion and a sharp tongue cannot plunge us? "Can we afford dangerous Mr. Eden with the European situation rapidly deteriorating? At a time when it is absolutely vital that...
...chief British interest in Ethiopia is Lake Tana and the Nile Basin. These represent also an interest of Egypt, which His Majesty's Government are bound to protect. In the event that Ethiopia should disappear as an independent State, His Majesty's Government should seek to secure territorial control over Lake Tana and an adequate corridor joining this lake to the Sudan...
...bank takes the businessman's note for $25,000, which is an asset. Thus $25,000 worth of new credit money is turned loose in the country, passing from bank to bank in the form of checks. Not until the borrower pays off his loan does that money disappear from circulation. Provided he has enough capital, the only limit on a banker's power to create credit is the amount of his reserves. At present U. S. banks have excess reserves of more than $3,000,000,000, and if they could find enough borrowers they could conceivably...