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...seems to me that you have been making Macedonian cries or yells ever since I have been in the White House. . .. Your unwarranted attacks on Mr. Pauley almost ruined a good public servant. . . . You have made it exceedingly difficult for me to get good men to fill the necessary places in the Government. You are still continuing your Macedonian cries and I hope you will get a lot of pleasure out of them...
...morning this week, just before noon, a servant entered the palace bed room of King Ananda Mahidol, 20-year-old constitutional monarch of Siam, and found the king's lifeless body. There was a bullet wound over his left eye, and a pistol lay at his left side. Courtiers who sniffed foul play remembered that Ananda was right handed. Although he had been thoroughly accustomed to handling firearms, the Siamese police and medical authorities pronounced his death "accidental." While his people grieved and the young queen mother, the Phraratanani Sri Sangwan, lay prostrate, Siam's new parliament...
Kutakalook was different. She was a post servant and had received a sweater as a Christmas present from Campbell. "Kutakalook was the most attractive Eskimo girl I had ever seen," he comments judiciously. "She was spotlessly clean. . . . Here, sitting on my bed, was a girl who was offering herself to me . . . in return for the sweater...
...conception of history was that all men and nations were involved in rebellion against God and that therefore the Messiah would have to be, not so much a strong and good ruler who would help the righteous to be victorious over the unrighteous, but a 'suffering servant' who would symbolize and reveal tne mercy of God; for only the divine forgiveness could finally overcome the contradictions of history and the enmity between man and God.. . . Both the historical conceptions of bourgeois liberalism and of Marxist utopianism are involved in errors, similar to those which Christ castigated...
...might also have said that he is 55, the son of a civil servant, an Oxford graduate (in jurisprudence), an ingrained reformer, a wonder at skittles, author of novels, plays, verse and broadsides, Britain's reigning wit, a Punch contributor since 1910, and since 1935 an Independent M.P. from Oxford...