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Prince Valerian Ossinski provided the only (mild) sensation of the week when he protested to the League that the Swiss police were guarding him against assassination so effectively that he was virtually a prisoner in his own hotel. Soon League officials persuaded the Swiss to desist. Prince Ossinski later spoke before the Conference, urging all nations to cancel their War debts, lower immigration barriers, and join with Soviet Russia in a program of universal disarmament. He spoke effectively, and some dozens of delegates crowded down near the rostrum, applauded...
...Desist, lady, from your pressing. Listen to a guy confessing That be thinks your hauteur's simply grand...
...Order! Order!" cried Conservatives. Said the Speaker, "The Right Honorable Member must desist from language discourteous to the Royal Family...
Cowed Oppositionists. President Gregory Zinoviev of the Third International was not elected to the Praesidium. Neither was once omnipotent Leon Trotsky. Recently in open opposition to "Boss" Stalin, they have been forced to desist from obstructing him (TIME, Oct. 25), and figuratively whipped into a corner. During the week M. Zinoviev, "the bomb-boy of Bolshevism," archadvocate of violent onslaughts upon Capitalism, growled to his intimates, "Henceforth my work with the Third International is impossible...
Busy little white men, ever ready to oil dark palms, shepherd droves of curious, prying U. S. tourists about the earth, bribe warring Chinese Tuchuns to desist and let them pass, wheedle and bluff their way through situations that would stagger a master strategist. As the Anchor liner California docked at Manhattan last week her Thomas Cook conducted passengers effervesced with triumph at having visited on their Mediterranean cruise a city which was at the time beseiged by some 2,000 rebel tribesmen-Damascus...