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...only unneighborly conduct. Democracy's rebirth will be hard, most ungodly hard. But enslavement would be harder. We have no other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend low, even to the dust. He must slip off his load and his proud trappings of purse and power. To be saved for 'a new Heaven and a new Earth' the diverse people of democratic civilization...
...Singhji Bahadur, 62, soldier-statesman: of cancer of the throat; in Bombay. He succeeded to the title when he was seven, began to rule Bikaner (pop. about 1,000,000) when he was 18. He multiplied the province's income tenfold. For the British he commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps in the Boxer Rebellion, served in the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I, was the only Indian to sign the Versailles Treaty. For 40 years he dazzled English coronations, a walking tower of jewels. At his Golden Jubilee in 1937 he gave to charity his weight in gold...
...Newly found fossils in Nebraska supported the view that the camel and rhinoceros went to Asia from places of origin in what...
...Beveridge plan carries Britain farther along the road to high-cost economy by adding a larger (30%) fixed charge on British taxpayers and British business, this straw might be heavy enough to break the camel's sagging back...
...Packards went to Tunis. Reynolds visited the Berthome (Tunisian Maginot) Line, which "was located between the Libyan frontier and Médenine and consisted mostly of elaborate underground works where whole battalions could hide. There were tank traps and miles of barbed wire, intended specifically to halt cavalry and camel corps. . . . Every oasis was a fortress in itself, complete with machine-gun nests, concrete redoubts, subterranean air-raid shelters, and still more barbed wire entanglements...