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...confessed to his part in preparing false evidence against the then Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He subsequently fled to England where he has lived ever since in a state of penury. He was referred to once by one of his followers as "that gladly forgotten Esterhazy, the wolf," so odious was his name in France...
...Prague in which he defined the attitude of Czecho-Slovakia toward Hungary. After he had finished his opponents said: " No one should know the disposition of his country toward another better than Dr. Benes, but when he resorts to choosing facts calculated to reveal Hungary in the most odious light, his assertions sink to the worthless level of propaganda...
...payments received from Germany. He also confirmed the Government's firm intention to examine in a spirit of equity any serious proposals addressed to it directly by the German Government. Answering interpellations from the Left in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Poincaré remarked: "It is odious to attribute to France designs of annexation! [Laughter from the Radicals.] We went into the Ruhr to get reparations and for no other reason. We will leave the Ruhr when Germany pays, not before!" Germany. Chancellor Cuno has expressed Germany's willingness to negotiate with the French as soon as definite...
Declaring that newspapers abroad are in the hands of a few men " of a peculiarly base and odious type," and that the press has become an engine of political action more to be feared than any other organism in the community, Helaire Belloc nevertheless stated that the power of the foreign press is waning. He was addressing the Calvert Association on the 289th anniversary of the landing of Catholic pilgrims in Maryland...
Since cock-crow and daylight have not been sufficient, the ghost must be dispersed, by the old device of hoax exposers; he must be confronted with self-comparisons, odious though they may be. First, in the Harvard scale, come the names of George Santayana, Percy McKaye, John Jay Chapman, Ed win Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Cale Young Rice. They, to be sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks...