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Sartip Riza marched with supreme bold ness on Teheran and such was the Army's disgust with do-nothing Ahmed Shah that a few hours of quiet maneuvering turned the trick as whole battalions went over to Publisher Saiyid Zia-ud-Din's revolution. Not long after the publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph...
...last few months have been attempting to build up the Harvard Liberal Club, wish to express our personal disgust with the bombastic activities and repulsive tactics of the National Student League. We believe that the actions of this radical group will do much to break down all we have done in helping to construct an organization wherein, by free discussion of radical, liberal, and conservative thought, a rational opinion concerning present-day problems Independent undergraduate investigation of political, social, and economic problems, so necessary today, has been discouraged by this organization whose every activity strengthens an illiberal and unreasoning opposition...
...Kingdom of their own. Realists well knew that the Allies would not like the idea of a new nation, one third as big as all Europe, blocking the way to India and the East, but the Arabs believed the Wartime promise. So did the mysterious Colonel Lawrence until his disgust at the duplicity of politicians caused him to flee theatrically from the world...
...member of this party of darkness and high in their councils, is Ernst Franz Hanfstaengl '09. The National Student League, which looks upon him and his associates with horror and disgust, cannot therefore fail to protest against the publicity given to his disgraceful letter by the CRIMSON. To find the CRIMSON, the official organ of that university which of all is most firmly dedicated to civilization and enlightenment, publicly approving and encouraging the presence in Cambridge of such a man, cannot help but fill us with surprise. Is it not a travesty to speak of dealing fairly with, and according...
...letter from the great parliamentarian Edmund Burke, indicating "grief, horror and disgust" at news of the French Revolution and surprise at the Marquis de La Fayette's failure to crush...