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Cried London's Daily Mail: "What sterile, counting-machine mind decided that these chunks of climate must pay duty?" Said the Times: "If the taxation is for revenue, the interest of the Exchequer demands the utmost effort to stimulate trade with the Polar region . . ." An Evening News cartoon pictured ogre-like customs men waiting to pounce on returning travelers. The caption read: "Ready, men? Watch out for French air in the bicycle tires, Swiss mud on the ski boots, Italian sunburn, Continental elan...
...Revolution sought to destroy faith, and the Church sought to destroy the Revolution. In the first half of the Third Republic's life (1871-1914), the Church-State issue was the main focus of internal French politics. The issue survives today in a fact of the utmost importance to the struggle with Communism. Although France has never ceased to be a Roman Catholic country in spirit, most of the French industrial proletariat and part of the peasantry have been cut off from Christianity for generations. Natives of the Paris industrial suburb of St. Denis are not converted to Marxism...
...there is pain, Alvarez believes in giving drugs to the dying patient with the utmost generosity. What if he does become addicted? It will make no difference in his grave. Moreover, naked suffering brings on death more quickly than morphine and other analgesics...
...been reassuring to meet many of these men. We have found them doing their utmost to teach the humility, devotion, and tolerance which democracy requires--traits their accusers never learned...
...however, the tendency has been to allow more and more privileges on the non-reading side while restricting serious readers in various ways. Laxity on the one side will inevitably act as a restrictive measure on the other. It would seem as if American university libraries are doing their utmost to compensate for the rigorous regulations of European libraries, particularly the Bibliotheque Nationale. Continuous loud talking is allowed in periodical and reading rooms, not to mention the stacks, where even lunches are munched lately. Expensive reference works like encyclopedias and dictionaries are handled so roughly by users that pages...