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...wheedle Italy into accepting this or even attendance at the conference, it was important that Italy should not be accused directly, but Russia, fighting mad at the loss of her ships during the summer, suddenly upset the apple cart. Bluntly she sent a note to Rome, accusing Italy outright of the torpedoing of the Soviet freighters Timiriazev and Blagoev during the past week and demanding cash reparations. Just as bluntly Italy denied the torpedoing, refused payment, intimated she would sit at no conference table with Russia...
...music festival in Salzburg (see p. 37), the main performance is not the whole show at Central City. There are saloons and gambling halls with oldtime atmosphere and Sheila Barrett doing impersonations in a nightclub. On the schedule this year are trips through the gold mines, a hose-cart race by the volunteer fire department, a rock-drilling contest for Colorado miners...
...Jingalo, which he wrote 25 years ago. Long out of print, it is now offered to U. S. readers because of a supposed similarity to the case of Edward VIII. A closer similarity is the one between its plot and that of Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart...
...assure that last week's decision by the executive committee is upheld by the full Congress Committee (a gathering of more than 200 who almost invariably do as they have been told), St. Gandhi last week left his rustic village retreat, came jolting into Wardha on a bullock cart. Had the Mahatma expected opposition, he would have first half starved himself, then insisted upon walking instead of riding in a bullock cart, would have staggered into the Congress Committee and inspired his disciples with their oft-repeated "pangs of remorse for the suffering we cause the Mahatma...
...asparagus cultivated under glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower of London...