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...from Indies waters. Perhaps to Australia, perhaps to Ceylon (see p. 19], he had withdrawn what the overwhelming Japanese Fleet had left of his battered squadrons. Dutchmen in the Indies and the U.S., Allied naval authorities in Washington and London, agreed that Admiral Helfrich had been no sacrificial goat when his command was shifted. To all effects, he had no fleet left to command...
...charkha (hand spinning wheel). He talked with the Gissimo through an interpreter, with vivid Mme. Chiang in English. After 80 minutes the Chinese visitors dined, while the Mohandas, as usual, abstained from mid-day eating. The conference continued through Gandhi's evening meal of unleavened cakes, boiled vegetables, goat's milk and fruit. Gandhi gave the yarn he had spun to the Gissimo, the charkha to Mme. Chiang...
...France, the trial itself was the disgrace. There was no gallantry in it, only misery and recrimination and bitter remembrance. But it must be held. Some one, it seemed, must be made the scape goat because France had turned Democracy into a greedy, complacent...
...Pelley, goat-bearded author, publisher, mystic, founder of the Silvershirt Legion of America, had quite an experience. The way he tells it, he died and went to eternity for seven minutes. The following year he was "inspirationally instructed" that "when a certain young house painter comes to the head of the German people, then do you take that as your time symbol for bringing . . . the Christian Militia into the open...
...Pierre, a lone bristle-bearded Breton sailor ran down to the quai to greet it, his wooden sabots clattering and slipping on the icy streets. In the still morning air the whole harbor could hear him bilingually swearing: "Pétain, le sacre bleu cochon, le old goat!" . . . With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard. "Vive De Gaulle," he shouted. "At last I can say it. Vive De Gaulle...