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...empty Throne symbolized the King. Upon the Dais in front of it, slightly more uncomfortable than on his usual woolsack, Viscount Hailsham sat down. The peers doffed their cocked hats. Garter King of Arms, a figure in black and cloth-of-gold, read the King's Commission signed by George V: "Know ye that Edward Southwell Russell, Lord de Clifford, stands indicted before...
...with forbidden Benin in the interior. Acting Consul General Phillips, eager to hurry matters, sent a message to grinning black King Overami of Benin, asking permission to visit his capital, arrange a treaty. With the messenger the Briton sent the traditional present: a bottle of gin, a piece of cloth, a walking stick. King Overami appreciated the gin, but sent word that it would be unwise for a white man to come at that time as he was celebrating the anniversary of his father's death. Mr. Phillips, who had not read the works of early travelers sufficiently...
Last week the great wheel of war and the little white ball of sanctions had only begun to whirl in opposite directions. The diplomatic croupiers of Europe's green tables were fingering below the cloth and there were plenty of buttons, pressure on which could make the wheel and ball "behave." To Paris from London again crossed last week minor Croupier Maurice Peterson, chief of the Ethiopian section of the British Foreign Office, to dicker further with his French colleague, minor Croupier Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. They have been in substantial agreement for weeks on a formula...
...only outlet is a thick steel door. Once the objects are locked up inside, gas from a cylinder is forced into the chamber by a powerful pump. The gas, which is allowed to circulate for at least a whole day, has the ability to penetrate almost any thickness of cloth or fibre, even reaching the innermost grains of a hundred pound bag of wheat with unimpaired efficacy. When the process is complete, the gas is exuded by release of a safety valve and carried off by means of a fan in the outlet pipe. The tapestries and furniture are then...
...official photographer disappeared under his black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...