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Paris newshawks learned that not only Deputies but also clerks and the Chamber's whole staff of functionaries will get comfortable offices under the sod. Special safety doors are planned to permit members of the underground Chamber, in case of dire emergency, to escape directly into Paris' immense sewers-a connection that will produce no end of Gallic witticisms...
Europe's outstanding example of mass production in industry, the great Bat'a Shoe Co. of Zlin, braced itself last week against a dire economic threat. Recent German press stories have declared: "The Bat'a family are Czech Jews." If this charge can be made to stick, Bat'a chain shoe stores in Vienna and other parts of Greater Germany face confiscation. Even if not made to stick it may seriously injure their business. Actually, most of the Bat'a family are tall, big-boned, straight-nosed, bristle-haired blonds...
Alibi. Since it is unpleasant for any Great Power to have to offer its money at cut rates, the excuse of dire emergency is always offered in such cases, and Orator Daladier went on the air with this vibrant alibi: "The truth is that our economic life is in a very bad condition; that legitimate profit is tending to disappear; that partial unemployment is increasing in every branch of industry; that our trade balance is impoverishing us; that our production figures are a humiliation for all Frenchmen...
...ditches and drains they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians and innocent of their later culture, sacked the cities and killed off the Volsci. About 600 B. c. they were first smitten by dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid and others, including Madame de Stael and more recently Gabriele D'Annunzio. Julius Caesar made elaborate plans for reclamation, Augustus and even Nero had vast labors performed, but in vain. The Catholic popes, notably that enlightened Medici, His Holiness Leo X, then...
...Germany or England offers the best security and probably lean toward the latter. With Chamberlain's policy of dictator-bargaining ruined, Eden will be redeemed and Italy's favor courted. Today, the fifteenth of March, both England and France and Italy are trembling with doubt and fear, and whatever dire prophecies they make, these former allies must realize that right still will be might...