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...Ambassador's immense study. Everywhere are paintings of Kings and Queens and the lesser mighty. Only one touch of the incongruous is present and that is when the door of the British Embassy is opened by a flunkey from Spain who has failed so far to assert his mastery over the English language...
...dispute were to arise with one of the Caribbean republics of such proportions as to demand the intervention of Britain as the head of the Commonwealth of Nations, would the United States step in and assert her sole right to settle it? This was what she did in the Venezuelan matter.* In the future, Canada might have a very great interest in the solution. Foreign policy is rapidly becoming an affair not of Britain alone, but of the Britannic Commonwealth...
Others who fail to find in the picture the face they seek, assert with conviction that college politics, not beauty, governs the selection of the 24 bearers of the Daisy Chain. Still others condemn the whole Daisy Chain as "cheap," "vulgar." "It much resembles a bathing-beauty contest!" cry they. "Daisy Chains should be abolished...
...nation in the world to control." He is doubtful of the wisdom with which this power is now being used. The doubts of Senator Shipstead are in many cases justified, but unfortunately his proposal raises the embarrassing question of whether the people of the United States are willing to assert such power or any international power. They have had it for the taking once before...
...principle reason for Dr. McDougall's refusal to endorse the genuineness of the phenomena produced by "Margery" is the unsatisfactory nature of the condition imposed by the medium on her investigators. That she has failed to give evidences of supernormal phenomena, Dr. McDougall does not assert. His attitude on this point is defined as follows: "She has produced a very considerable quantity of such phenomena. The defect is in respect of the quality rather than of the quantity of the evidence. What I do assert is that the evidence of the opposite tendency far outweights the evidence of supernormality...