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Into his occasional proclamations from Switzerland, France's handsome, six-foot, 24-year-old Bonapartist Pretender, His Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon† commonly flings some such ringing piece of Corsican bravado as "My name is the most glorious guarantee France has ever had of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity!" Because the original, short, squat Napoleon smashed the First Republic of France, and the second Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic, the Third Republic has always up to now refused to do homage to L'Empereur. Last week the Bonapartist cause was finally considered so dead, the Pretender so harmless...
...horse has no means of defense these days. I do not think you would like to see your old friends wounded and suffering. . . . The saddest word is goodby. You will have many changes and you will no longer have your faithful friends. But you will maintain those glorious traditions of which we are proud...
...great God, whom I worship, grant to my country and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory...
While the song from our hearts Of our glorious flag...
What will Justice Roberts say when he Jays the proposed statute alongside of the appropriate article of the Constitution to see if the former squares with the latter? He may retreat from the glorious standard set in the AAA decision but we can confidently expect from Justice McReynolds a blistering restatement of his dissent in the Gold Clause cases: "As for the Constitution it is not too much to say that it is gone." And this will be a merited rebuke for the New York Herald Tribune...