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...citizens last week beheld a preview of what the peace table may be like. The actors were scholars and pundits; but their show had plenty of unacademic gusto. It raised a question considerably more immediate than the peace itself: were the American people well enough educated to know a just peace when they...
...Lady. Bernadette Soubirous was born on a Jan. 7, which was the birth date also of Jeanne d'Arc. On Feb. 11, 1858, a backward, asthmatic girl of 14, she beheld, in a swine-fouled little grotto near Lourdes, a dainty, gay and ineffably dressed young lady who talked and gestured with her in the silence of her enchanted heart. During the next few weeks Bernadette saw her many times, though the lady was invisible to the increasing hundreds (Bernadette had talked) who gathered at the grotto...
...Told that one plant was so secret they could not even say they had seen it, let alone its product, correspondents a few days later beheld the selfsame product, in color, peering out of a full-page ad in the Satevepost...
...Socialist news paper in South Germany until the outbreak of World War I; took lovers, of whom the best one fell in Belgium; befriended a lonely archduchess and nursed and under-ate throughout the war; had two children, one by a man who was not her husband; beheld and took part in the miseries of German post-war democracy; was sent to Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist; got eyefuls and skinfuls of U.S. boomtime living, Manhattan Prohibition and Naziism; watched one son grow dully dependable and the other flirt with Naziism...
...morning of Armistice Day, Colmar, Alsace, beheld a strange parade. Hundreds of snails crept through the streets. They were smeared under the wheels of traffic; they squished under the boots of Nazi troops, who finally pressed snickering Frenchmen into service as street cleaners. Across the shell of every snail was painted the red, white & blue of the Tricolor...