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...Ramsay MacDonald has said : "The Government pitiably mishandled the problem. . . . . In the end the only things that could happen did happen. As in the decaying days of the Roman Empire, victorious invaders had to be bought off, so peace has now to be purchased by spending taxpayers' money...
...were price-reductions in the closely related motor and gasoline industries. Businessmen were distracted, however, by the intense speculative operations in real estate and securities. In both cases, the cause seemed to be ample idle funds to play with rather than great increases in prospective earning power. What will happen next is anyone's guess...
...take centuries, it may happen within this century. But at present men are too ready to aggrandize the small differences between their respective creeds, minimizing the common belief and the common good, making a federation of churches impossible...
...strong force of Green Police (German) and some French civilians were the only onlookers. Suddenly a sharp command broke the mortuary silence. The scene abruptly became charged with the tension of things about to happen. There was a snap, much shuffling and slapping as rifles came to a general salute. Then silence. General Guilleaume, commanding the French troops in the Ruhr area, had appeared on the steps of his headquarters. After reviewing the assembled troops, the General turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor...
WHITE CARGO-A shrewd theatrical deduction on what might happen if a white man became too lonely among the native maidens of sandy Africa...