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Although it is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, aluminum was not isolated until a Dane named Oersted did so in 1825, by heating the chloride with potassium. Napoleon Ill's chemist, Deville, substituted sodium for potassium, got the price of aluminum down to $34, then...
...defendants even admitted performing these, that did not alter the submission of all the defendants that as individuals they had had no knowledge of the vast ramifications of Swindler Stavisky's crockeries but had considered him a man of substance. Stavisky was, they submitted, a "Financial Napoleon," the magnitude of whose coups and victories on the Bourse erased his peccadillos from the minds of Cabinet Ministers and the Surete Generate, who "never bothered Sacha, although they knew, of course, they knew...
...when they exiled the Huguenots, sending them to found new industries & enrich foreign countries? Or the St. Bartholomew's Massacre? Would it not be better to read solely Lamartine, A. de Vigny & Chateaubriand, who gave the English such good ideas to think up for vilifying the Republic & Napoleon? . . . You admire Hitler whose intentions towards France are so evident he has caused Britain to drop her isolation ... & Mussolini who for ten years was making trouble for France. . . . Your aim is not patriotism as you say; that is merely the snare to catch the foolish & to set yourselves...
...Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador in Berlin, called on Adolf Hitler three weeks ago. There followed one of those remarkable scenes in which the Realmleader, as Napoleon occasionally used to do, flies into a tremendous passion, smiting his desk and screaming. Effective, this answered, with a negative more convincing than a calm man could have uttered, Sir Eric's question on behalf of His Majesty's Government as to whether Germany would care to enter an international air armament reduction treaty...
...WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA-General de Caulaincourt-Morrow...