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...whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven."* (MATTHEW XVI: 18, 19.) Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, successor to the authority of Peter, brooded last week at 'the Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway...
...whom France owed her ability to resist the German hordes. At present the so-called "revisionist historians" are busy with piles of documents released from the secret archives of Austria-Hungary and Russia, on the basis of which M. Poincarè is charged with being the chief and successful arch-plotter of the World...
...have on your front cover, made it necessary for all the world that believe in justice and freedom to go to war. Of course the article on p. 13 was news, and all right, but why cause Americans, or at least one, to remember any more vividly that arch-rascal and scoundrel "Wilhelm Der Zweite" who felt that he was almost if not equal with...
Among German arch-Monarchists the events of last week inspired a slogan: "Ballots for Bullets!" None but such ramrod-backed lantern-jawed die-hards believed that the 45,000,000 Germans who abstained from voting last week will ever ballot Wilhelm back upon the throne from which he was brought down by bullets...
Four venturies unroll to provide a political pantomine of the moment. Spain has asked the Government of Mexico for the bones of Hernando Cortex. The conqueror of Peru and Mexico, arch-slave driver, arch-adventurer, first buried near Seville, was removed later, according to a wish he had expressed, across the Atlantic. He was laid near the scenes of his crassest cruelty; and has lain there until history and romance have bleached his fame, torn off the invincible armor, and have feigned, at least, to see "stout Cortez", "silent, upon a peak in Darien...