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...point to be noted, however, is that Britain and France were permitted to add what they had deducted from Belgium to their reparation bill against Germany. Whether that claim will ever be fully paid is debatable. But however much Belgium bled for the world, the attitude of the U. S. remains inexorable that all debts must be paid by the contracting parties and not balanced against, nor added to, a debt owing by another, which is what Britain and France have tried to do. Belgium has evidently decided to pay; although, in the words of Foreign Minister Vandervelde, leader...
...British Isles there are 750,000 golfers-esquires who dig their own graves with their niblicks, Englishmen wha' ha' wi' Wallace bled their shillings on every green, Scots wahighing their short approaches, wahoing the long grass with their mashies, plus-four scorers who shyly admit that the only shot they are sure of is their fourth putt. Even of these, many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch...
Giovanni Piroli, aged 31, was down on his luck. So off he went in rags to the Royal Palace. To the guard on duty he said: "I want to see King Victor Emmanuel, for whom I fought and bled...
That winter, he lay ill in Charles Brown's house, languid with fever, able to write but little and consumed with longing for Fanny Brawne, whom he could not always see, though she lived so near. His doctor bled him often, fed him little; his illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then...
...painting it as something which it absolutely is not. Fascism has given wonderful proofs of discipline in the face of overt provocations and will continue to remain disciplined. But I ask you, who were my companions in the War, in the trenches, on the Carso, where we suffered and bled and fought and won together : 'Can we turn back...