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...Courteous . . . Honorable." On Argentina the compromise was typical. Between the U.S. stand that Argentina should be ignored or castigated and the Latin demand that it be discussed and forgiven, a middle ground had been found. Said the resolution: it is too bad Argentina could not take part; it can still join up if it will "cooperate with the other American nations by identifying itself with the common policy . . . and by orienting its own policy until it achieves its incorporation into the United Nations as a signatory. . . . The final Act of the Conference is open to adhesion by the Argentine nation...
...banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born." There also the shipwrecked men tediously conspired and caroused. When, at the last - his enemies forgiven, Ariel and Caliban set free - Prospero forswears magic, he seems indeed (as many men have thought) to symbolize Shakespeare himself, breaking his own poetic wand...
Rich, benevolent Sir Sayed had a reputation as an apostle of Allah to maintain. Although his fighting father had killed General ("Chinese") Gordon, King George V had forgiven and knighted the son. Now Sir Sayed determined to break the market, enable his followers to obey the Prophet's injunction: marry and beget sons...
...floor show all their own by jumping all over the stand and waving their arms wildly. This really sends the squares and draws, the customers, but since Sabby and his boys must eat, an unfortunate necessity which all musicians at one time are forced to face, they can be forgiven...
Said one airman, thoroughly mindful of the Navy's crack job in the Pacific: "It is still a fact that they have never quite forgiven the Wright brothers for inventing the airplane...