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...admit I have no majority," said the Premier. "In due time there will be a general election, but meanwhile I intend with the aid of the Cabinet to maintain law, order and a strong government. I intend to increase the ridiculously small Egyptian Army from 11,000 to 50,000 troops, with mechanized equipment and reserves to back them. Our foreign policy is 'Friendship for all, and especially for Britain...
...economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open to attack, and so populous that her resources of man power cannot soon be exhausted. Her greatest weakness has always been in will power. If Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling can maintain their will as China's will-the same will which said that "any sacrifice should not be regarded as too costly"-Chinese prospects are good. China's prospects now as they have been for 20 centuries are, however, only for the long pull...
With fine oriental flair old King Fuad managed, with British assistance, to maintain himself in power without kowtowing to Egypt's majority Wafdist party. As his royal adviser toward the end of his rule, he kept an anti-Wafdist, Ali Maher Pasha. Under the new King, Ali Maher was appointed to the Senate and Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha and his Wafdists hoped they could maintain a monopoly as bestowers of royal advice. Two months ago strong-willed Farouk, without ado, plucked Ali Maher from the Senate and reinstalled him as royal adviser. Premier Nahas protested volubly. Wafdist Blue-shirts...
Whales are mammals. They do not have gills but lungs, must breathe air in order to maintain life. Therefore a whale out of water is not, like a fish, deprived of a necessary element. When a school of dead whales was recently found on the Australian coast. Dr. William Alexander Osborne, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Melbourne, put this question to his learned colleagues: "Why do stranded whales die?" From his learned colleagues, according to his report in Nature last week, he received the following answers...
...even Mr. Caddow, however, would maintain that a cheap young run-of-the-wine-press California claret is the equal of Château Mouton Rothschild 1929. What he does think and many sound wine critics concede is that in its class California wine does not have to bow to the snobbish claims of foreign wine. And even connoisseurs are no longer so outraged as they were once when they heard cheap foreign wines selling at $1 or so a bottle compared with California wine selling for $1 or so a gallon. In short much of the vin ordinaire...