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...this should become a fait accompli, Yugo-Slavia will once again enjoy the support of the greatest of Slav nations. With Pan-Germanism dead and buried and Der Drang nach Osten but a blurred memory, Russia, and with Russia Pan-Slavism, will be able to play an unrestricted role in the Balkans. Premier Pashitch of Yugoslavia is probably more aware of this than any living man. His reason for wanting to recognize Russia, after having withheld that honor so long, is that Communism has been so modified that it will not present any grave danger to the Yugo-Slavian State...
Since the passing of the day "when hearts were young and knights were bold," it has been the general impression that duels were no longer au fait. Happily this glorious remnant of chivalry is not yet laid to rest in France and steel once more flashes against steel for so slight a provocation as a disagreement over theatre tickets. Alas, although the spirit flames as before, the flesh lacks practice; the combat ended with a scratch on the throat. So fades the glory of a once splendid...
...left vacant by the head of the Hohenzollerns. Perhaps that is the reason why he telephoned to Berlin and assured the Government of his loyalty to the Reich. The chances of such a coup are on the face of it good. The Allies, confronted with a fait accompli, would hesitate to take any costly action against Germany; moreover, Prince Rupprecht is known to be a thoroughly trustworthy and practical man and as such is respected; he is also cousin of the Queen of the Belgians. The real barriers to the Wittelsbach aspirations lie in the fact that North Germany...
...rapidly became a rich man, so rich that it was said that his money alone was enough to debar him from the Spanish Court. His wife, who is very beautiful, managed to advertise his wealth ostentatiously, and thereby aroused more jealousy, criticism and suspicion. When the revolution became a fait accompli, Don Alba was in San Sebastian, on the Franco-Spanish border, but he rapidly crossed the frontier to Biarritz in order to avoid arrest. The National Directorate charged him with...
...outburst against the clergy and the Roman Catholic religion. It was the same way in Russia. The church was communized despite the indignant voice and obstructive tactics of the priests. As in France, so in Russia the clergy were the first dissentients to recognize a revolutionary Government as a fait accompli. The All Russian Church Council identifies Bolshevism with itself in its resolution, which starts: " Inasmuch as the Soviet Government is the only one in the whole world fighting capitalism, which is one of the seven deadly sins; therefore its struggle is a sacred struggle...