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...Captain Eden's train drew in, the Polish Foreign Office was defining Marshal Pilsudski's policy as one of "being able to take care of ourselves." The gruff old Dictator who refuses to be President and insists on being War Minister believes, really, in nothing but the sword. To him, the spokesman implied, it will be difficult for a suave young Etonian on the make to sell the Stalin-endorsed, Hitler-rebuffed Eastern Locarno Pact...
...turned temporarily into an operating room. A doctor opened a vein in the arm of Gregorio Perfecto so that worthy delegate might sign his name to the new Philippine Constitution in his own warm blood. If a new Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands could not be founded by the sword, it was better, thought Delegate Perfecto, that it should be founded by the lancet than...
From a court martial there is no appeal. Month ago Captain Henry Richard Sawbridge of H. M. S. Renown marched stiffly into a courtroom in Portsmouth dockyard and saw that his sword lying on the judges' table had its point toward him in token of guilt. He was retired on half pay and dismissed from his ship as responsible for the strange collision in mid-ocean between the huge battle cruisers Hood and Renown. Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey, in command of the maneuvers, and Captain Francis T. B. Tower of the Hood, also court martialed, were acquitted (TIME...
Things went harder with the Renown's commander, Captain Sawbridge. When he returned to the courtroom his sword point lay toward him. "Do you wish to make any statement seeking to mitigate punishment?" asked the Court...
...said guilty Captain Sawbridge. He was then retired from the Navy, on half pay. Next day the long line of' gold cuffs and epaulets proceeded to try Captain Tower. Though the Hood under Captain Tower had apparently made no move to avoid the collision. Captain Tower's sword came back to him hilt first...