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...share to the full the fervent hope and prayer of the Archbishops, Bishops and clergy for the success of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. I am confident that my governments throughout the British Commonwealth will exert themselves to the uttermost to secure the largest possible measure of general disarmament, and their endeavors will be greatly assisted by your wholehearted support and prayers. I pray that Divine guidance may be with those who, in these anxious days, bear the great responsibility of directing the affairs of our own and of other nations...
...uttermost parts of the world goes news of the election of Achille Cardinal Ratti, Archbishop of Milan, to be Rome's 261st Pope. Facts: he is 64, stocky, a onetime mountain-climber; famed as Papal Nuncio to seething Poland; a sober, scholarly cleric; a politically-minded, potent man of action...
Exactly like comets are Chinese War Lords, here in a halo of gore and glory one day, gone next week into uttermost limbo, then back again after several years with brilliance undimmed, braggadocio redoubled. Last week from the limbo of a remote Buddhist monastery in Tibet there returned to the everlasting Chinese fray Comet Wu Pei-fu, the "Scholar War Lord...
...faults. But let us not go on cursing, abusing, and damning him. ... I tell you, friends, it gave me a heartache to see those great [school] buildings [at Davenport] nearly empty and that great school [of chiropractic] almost without pupils. It wrung my heart to the uttermost...
...withdrew command of the Western Front from the Grand Duke. Stories are still told of the iron discipline which he kept, and of the wise and genuine humanity with which he tempered it. Like Napoleon he was loved because he inspired his men to march and fight to their uttermost, exultant limit, while always feeding and bedding them as well as could 'by any possibility be done. That he defied the Tsar, the politicians and Rasputin separately, collectively and repeatedly is well known. On one celebrated occasion the Black Monk had persuaded the Tsar to order that he, Rasputin...