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...Germany's Alfred Rosenberg, "a crowd of half-breeds and ex-patriots have rushed to our country. Thanks to the imprudent generosity of certain politicians and the political calculations of others, French citizenship has been handed out at the rate of a battalion a month. This most precious right has been usurped by these people-they must now restore...
...many besides ourselves, of all those things which, as we say, make life worth living. We realize that the struggle may cost us everything, but just because the things we are defending are worth any sacrifice it is a noble privilege to be the defenders of things so precious...
Adolf Hitler presented Benito Mussolini with a two-car armored train mounting 16 anti-aircraft guns, to protect "a life which is precious not only to the Italian people, but also to the German nation...
...mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism. No insulated tripper but a careful student of language and custom, he visited one Buddhist monastery after another in the borderland provinces of Sikkim and Ladak, seeking always Lamas, teachers, of the utmost excellence, and bringing always the conventional offering: unmounted precious stones...
...Fontainebleau school is gone. The merriest and best-loved of its teachers, 77-year-old Isidore Philipp (piano), is a penniless refugee in the Pyrenees. Pince-nezed, schoolmarmish Nadia Boulanger, coach of many a young composer, was last seen driving away with her most precious possessions piled high in an automobile. Few other Fontainebleau teachers have been heard from at all. But two pianists, Robert Casadesus and his pretty wife Gaby, are in the U. S. Last week they started up the Fontainebleau tradition at Newport...