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...position and active economic relations. If we were entirely free: if Ireland were an independent democracy, entirely mistress of her destiny within her natural frontiers, I, for my part, would favor a very friendly political understanding with Great Britain. But as long as there exists against us a menacing fortress on our own soil, and we must live, so to speak, in a state of suspicion, true friendship can never be born between the two nations...
With meticulous care the archeologist's pick & shovel gang cleared the entrance to another old tomb. Here, atop Monte Alban which overhangs the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt...
Inside the Kremlin Fortress 600 pink-cheeked, drably-dressed Russians met last week in the gorgeous, glittering onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II. Stamping the snow off their shoes, blowing on their hands, wiping their red noses, lighting cigarets and shouting greetings they sat down on wooden benches for a brief session of the Soviet Parliament, or Union Central Executive Committee...
...Last week President Hoover drove to Annapolis, Md. to board the U. S. S. Arkansas which would take him, via Fortress Monroe, to the sesquicentennial celebration of the American victory (thanks to France) at Yorktown. Mayor Walter E. Quenstedt of Annapolis hospitably went out to the city limits to greet the President. Through some slip up in arrangements, the President's entourage flashed heedlessly by, leaving Mayor Quenstedt & party stranded on the side of the road like a band of hitchhikers. The Mayor rode angrily back to town, wrote a letter to the White House demanding an explanation...
...motors the young Brownshirts got completely out of hand, staged an impromptu raid of the Communist workmen's quarters of the city. Street barricades were thrown up, pistols cracked, brickbats hurtled through the air. At least 15 men were gravely wounded. One Col. Hoffmann, former commandant of the fortress of Ingolstadt, was expected to die. Brunswick police, hopelessly outnumbered, telephoned frantically for tanks and armored cars...