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...High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Spanish forces in Morocco was Don Damaso Berenguer, and a disastrous bloody hash he made of it. Potent, resourceful Moroccan Sultan Abd-El-Krim repeatedly wiped out Spanish forces larger than his own, and in 1922 the High Commissioner resigned in dis grace, greatly weakening by his fall the prestige of his patron King Alfonso...
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...Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed a law forbidding the display of flasks and cocktail shakers by merchants, the reproduction of liquor labels in newspapers, medicinal prescription of whiskey. Last month it was dis-covered that he was medicinally drinking a brew which contained 23% alcohol, which he instantly forswore...
...broad continuity whichever faction is top dog; secondly, that the Laborites did not repudiate the Balfour Note when they were in power; thirdly, that the principle laid down by Lord Balfour is now so firmly embroidered on the warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites are so unprincipled (and probably Bolshevik, too, by gad!) that they even repudiate Lord Balfour, and say that France is worse...
...without sin or wrongdoing? That after Jesus was dead and buried he actually rose from the dead, having the tomb empty? That there will be one final day of judgment for all who have lived upon earth? Answering ministers and theological students were given a choice of belief, dis belief, uncertainty. Of the ministers, 60% believed in the Devil but only 53% gave him a Hell in which to live. The students' score, also seemingly illogical, was 11% in belief of a real Hell but only 9% in belief of a real Devil. From the mass of contradictory credences...