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Last week Dr. Gessler's words had an honest ring. He is in ill health. Fate has just dealt him a "personal blow" by striking dead, during the past twelvemonth, his two flourishing sons, and, last week, his mother. Since the Fatherland is secure and Otto Gessler stricken, why should he not rest...
Last week stubborn, tenacious Dr. Gessler suddenly transmitted to President Paul von Hindenburg his resignation, giving as his reasons, "my ill health and the effects of a personal blow of Fate." Deeply concerned, old Paul von Hindenburg kept the resignation secret for two days, conveyed to Dr. Gessler the hope and the sincere wish that he would reconsider...
...execution, as provided by the more popular newspapers, was unbounded. How eagerly they assimilated the itemized description of this gruesome procedure! How they revelled in the mental picture brought to their minds of the death house, the atmosphere and the victims, writhing inwardly at the apprehension of their impending fate...
...poor stone hut, there is now no palace that the native peasant girl of the Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
...possess a particle of your leader's [Dr. Sun Yat-sen's] vision or remember that close co-operation with Soviet Russia was his last will, then you will stop this headlong plunging toward a precipice, dragging with you the fate of your country...