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...Emperor must live for the rest of his life.What he brought on the Enterprise was estimated at a little over $5,000,000. One important item was already safely in a London vault, the imperial crown of Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed imminent. To be nearer this last badge of authority left him, Haile Selassie was prepared to leave Jerusalem soon for London, possibly make a dash for Geneva later in the spring...
...check, with his signature in the lower right hand corner and the $5,700 just above it, but to a mere powder monkey it's a lot to save in two years. If some Punk tries to burn me up with "Hello, Sucker," I'll plum incinerate him with an equally original "Says You." I fail to see where anyone made a sucker...
...Nations has done all that was expected of it--nothing. The enraged Flandin of a week ago has cooled down under the soothing effects of Eden's dilatory tactics and has even been induced to reach into the international grab-bag to pull out whatever he can. His plum consists of the proposal that a demilitarized zone policed by British and Italian troops be set up in the Rhineland, an offer which M. Flandin must know as well as Eden that the Hitler government will in no way accept...
...object like an elongated plum, to the end of which is attached an iron crown...
Since M. Laval is of the Moderate Right, the Socialists & Communists exulted. Cried Socialist Leader Leon Blum: "We shook the Radical Socialist plum tree until Laval fell...