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Referring to your report about the Eucharistic Congress recently held at Carthage and the very interesting resume of the history of that ancient city (TIME, p. 26, May 19), permit me to correct the quotation ascribed to the Roman senator Marcus Porcius Cato. The phrase as given "Delenda est Carthago" might have been used by Scipio Africanus when reporting the destruction of Carthage (however, he would not have used the "th" in the Latin name of that city...
...Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic War (149-146 B.C.) and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the Younger literally did destroy Carthage. He killed all the inhabitants, razed every building, sprinkled salt on the ground to prevent husbandry, dedicated the place...
...program is as follows Prelude and Fugue, E major Vincent Lubeck Trio Johann Krebs Prelude and Fugue, C major Georg Bohm Hodie Christus natus est Palestrina Adoramus to Dei Lassus Confitemini Alesandro Constantinl Aria de Chiesa Anonymous Italian 17th Century Fugue, D miner Pollarolf Regina Coeli Brahma Meet and right it is to praise the Lord Arkhangelsky Fantasia on "Komm, Helliger Gelat, Herre Gott" J. S. Bach
...would be my thirteenth cabinet. C'est...
...est pour les cambrioleurs, for burglars," announced M. Desotrat. "I intend that our home shall be protected...