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...Klux Klan is sure that Smith's foreign policy would be to deliver the United States into the hands of Rome. There are other observers who cite Smith's refusal to be swept off his feet in the post-war Bolshevist hysteria as proof that if he were elected President he would show foresight liberality, and cool-headedness in his foreign policy, that he would leave this department of the Government largely in the hands of his advisers...
...flare for entering realms not his own is a curious and potent thing. The sea, the air, the jungle, the antipodes attract Irresistibly the craving for novelty so characteristic of humanity; and one needs no proof that this urge has been a tremendous factor in the progress in which each succeeding century takes pride. Success has perhaps gone a little to man's head; he takes mad chances and wins and in his cocksureness fails to take precaution in easier matters...
...Zinoviev Letter" which hastened the fall of James Ramsay MacDonald's Labor Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924). Secretary Gregory, without informing Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary MacDonald, despatched a protest against the Zinoviev letter to Moscow. When news of this move reached the British public it was accepted as proof of the genuineness of the Zinoviev letter (now generally considered a forgery) and materially helped to sway the country away from Laborite MacDonald...
Some few moments later a limousine with bullet-proof glass windows stops at the door. Up the stair stalks Il Duce. He enters the presence of the dead, alone. Like a soldier, like a ramrod, he stands at attention beside the bier. Minutes pass. No tears, no prayers, no rattling of beads. At last Signor Mussolini salutes the dead and strides away...
...done well in college studies while the prevalent opinion that extra-curriculum activities were more valuable as a preparation for later life has no basis for its claims. President Lowell has carried on exhaustive investigations on this subject for many years and the results of his search are proof of his theory, long held by teachers...