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...same day, in every Polish city and town as well as Gdynia, Poles massed and took a public oath: "We swear to defend the eternal right of Poland to the Baltic and to protect the maritime future of our country, to maintain an invincible guard in the mouth of the Vistula [Danzig]. ... So help...
...museum does not care to be of immediate practical use to the people who maintain it, help them to more intelligent enjoyment of daily life by adding interest to the common interest of that life, and seeks only to arouse astonishment, awe, and a harmful reverence by means of objects rare, old. costly, and of aristocratic history, it needs only acquire such objects, place them on walls or pose them in cases, speak with seeming authority of Art, Beauty, Esthetics, Styles, Periods, and the like, and rest content...
...airmen guard it. Since most of the stockholders are French, 19 of the 32 directors are Frenchmen (ten are British, two Egyptian, one Dutch). Italians have long clamored for lower Canal tolls and representation on the Board of Directors, chiefly because Italy spends big money on Suez tolls to maintain communication with Italian East Africa. Lately Italy has been trying to lend weight to its demands with the somewhat irrelevant assertion that not only Ferdinand de Lesseps, but three obscure Italian engineers planned and dug the ditch. Their names: Negrelli, Torelli and Paleocapa...
Jews and Alcohol. Among U. S. Jews,, said Boston's famed Dr. Abraham Myerson, alcoholism is practically nonexistent. Reason: social tradition. "[The Jew] had to live by his wits in an environment where he had to maintain the full potency and coherency of his personality. Alcoholism became dangerous to the group and received severe punishment...
...declaration concerning his peace efforts: "Toward the beginning of last month we thought it timely, after mature deliberation, to make known to some statesmen of the great European nations the anxiety the situation was causing us at that moment. . . . We received assurances of good will and of determination to maintain peace...