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...been in this war a long time, seen action and must see much more I think your little fairy tale does the hope of mine and of all partisans of peace a grievous disservice. . . . The flower of world collaboration is a tender one indeed. And every hand in the world is not too many to nurture...
...Dominion's War Assets Corp., charged with disposing of war surpluses, offered some 19,000 obsolete steel Army helmets at 49? each. Canadians were uninterested, even when WAC suggested that the helmets would make good flower pots, feeding bowls for pets, bird baths or hens' nests. It began to look as if the helmets would have to be junked...
Bill White, blithely cutting across an ideological flower bed with his Kansas reaping machine, now knew, if he didn't know before, that Russia has definitely ceased to be a safe topic for unwary reporters...
...spring, when the windows are open, "you can hear pianos being played and people practicing singing." There are street-corner flower stands, and women selling lavender. In this old city much that seems dull to newcomers, or hopelessly outdated to reformers, turns out to be a by-product of contentment, accidentally wise...
Count Giuseppe Volpi, 67, felt like a blooming magnolia-one of the pink & white magnolias that were bursting into flower again in Lausanne's formal gardens. For another spring had come to the new ruins of old Europe, amidst which the Count was somewhat surprised to find himself alive. From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil...