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Outside Quarrels. Plainly referring to the Franco-Belgian alliance which his royal words served virtually to disrupt last week, His Majesty said: "Any unilateral policy weakens our position abroad and excites, rightly or wrongly, a division at home. An alliance, even if it is purely defensive, does not achieve its purpose because, however prompt might be the aid from our ally, it would come only after an onslaught by an invading army which would be devastating. In any event, we should have to struggle single-handed against that onslaught...
...Norris. veteran of ten years in the House and 24 in the Senate, announced his desire for retirement. Relieved were Nebraska's regular Republicans to be thus rid of a man who, Republican in name only, had returned from Washington every six years to snatch their Senatorial nomination, disrupt their party ranks. Quickly and quietly they marshaled their forces, gave the Senatorial nomination to a longtime 100% Republican Representative, Robert G. Simmons, who had lost his House seat in the 1932 Democratic landslide...
...Loyalties" is the name of one of the lesser-known plays of John Galsworthy, now a movie, and it means the esprit de corps that binds together the gentlemen of England, in addition to another loyalty that tends to disrupt that union...
...ground for future action while seeming to be absorbed in immediate affairs. The second was that Napoleon's cynicism and his belief in the limitless corruptibility of human beings was a deep weakness, blinding him to the possibility of an alliance against him that he could not disrupt. Since few aristocrats could conquer their prejudice enough to study the Emperor carefully, Metternich had a great advantage in the negotiations of the allies, soon maneuvered a weak, twice-defeated Austria into a decisive position among European powers...
...ordered a general election. The Field Marshal swore that if his parliamentary henchmen did not win a majority, his military henchmen would lead a coup d'etat to oust King George. Last week the Kondylis cohorts had not won their majority, but Kondylis' sudden death did not disrupt the cohorts. Almost as though they had known Death was about to strike, the busily intriguing officers, some hours before the field marshal was stricken, were conferring with General Pitsikas, Admiral Economou and General Reppas, all doughty would-be Dictators...