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...answer to the letter of dog-baiting Bulletin the Nov. 21 issue of TIME, I want to say that there is an exception to that old axiom that reads: "There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us. . . ." It is an historic fact that criminals, idiots and the dregs of humanity have had dogs to worship them, yet your correspondent seems never to have attained that happiness...
...mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...presumably for the State Department, uttered what sounded like the first breath of a more vigorous U. S. foreign policy. Obviously Mr. Edge was referring to Japan's seizure of Manchuria and to Germany's invasions of France when he said : "Americans are wedded to a fundamental axiom. ... On a national scale, and in international practice, this axiom would read. ... .A nation's primary right is to be free of fear of invasion! "Faith in the justice of this principle is so deeply ingrained in the American people that when they see territory over run they...
Satsuma Empress, In the new Cabinet Baron Yamamoto, the Home Minister, is a Satsuma. In Japan it is an axiom that "The Home Ministry makes the election." Why did the Son of Heaven consent to a Satsuma in this key post? Court gossip had it last week that Emperor HirohitO' and his ancient adviser Prince Saionji, 83, had both been swayed by another adviser who is the Son of Heaven's close friend, Count Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal-a Satsuma...
...Warsaw everyone knows that Poland will go to war the moment any nation menaces her corridor to the sea. The greatest living Pole restated this axiom of his nation in Manhattan last week. Not for 13 years has Ignace Jan Paderewski been Premier of Poland. He and Poland's present Dictator, eccentric Marshal Pilsudski, are on barely civil terms. But every Pole backed Pianist Paderewski when he exclaimed...