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When Spaak sat down, it was clear that he had his majority. Even most of the Socialists applauded. But he refused to settle for "most." "Monsieur le President," he said quickly, "I see I am not supported by my own party. I beg you to adjourn the session." He strode out, drove to the royal palace, formally handed his resignation to Regent Charles. Then he took his wife out for a good dinner...
Mexico's Master. Lorencez saw nothing but ragged Mexican, scouts ducking over the brown hills ahead. "We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in morality, and in elevation of feeling," he wrote the French War Minister, "that I beg Your Excellency to be so good as to inform the Emperor that, at the head of 6,000 soldiers, I am already master of Mexico...
...beg you to write in your letter nothing about mine because I want to live yet for some years--you know concentration-camps...
...ever had to beg Toscanini to play for charity-although he has refused to play for dictators. And he venerates Verdi above all other composers. For the past two months he has been teaching Verdi's score to his soloists. In his long, low-ceiling dressing room on the eighth floor of the RCA Building, he has sat at the piano, croaking and gesticulating at red-haired Soprano Herva Nelli, while a picture of Verdi stared at her from the piano's littered top. "Nelli," he pleaded, "please do use the expression on your face that you feel...
However, to set the record straight, we beg to point out that, contrary to-what the Russophiles and phobes may say or think, Marxism never has been tried, so cannot be found wanting, as you so glibly try to cancel...