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...feel a desire to speak words of good will to you, as chief of the Italian nation, across what seems to be a swiftly widening gulf. . . . We can, no doubt, inflict grievous injuries upon one another and maul each other cruelly and darken the Mediterranean with our strife. If you so decree, it must be so. But I declare that I have never been the enemy of Italian greatness, nor ever at heart the foe of the Italian lawgiver. . . . Down the ages, above all other calls, comes the cry that the joint heirs of Latin and Christian civilization must...
...Eire bases, and Winston Churchill said: "The fact that we cannot use the south and west coasts of Ireland to refuel our flotillas and aircraft and thus protect trade by which Ireland, as well as Great Britain, lives, that fact is a most heavy and grievous burden and one which should never have been placed upon our shoulders, broad though they...
Seeking Divorce. John Barrymore, 58, unpredictable, four-times-married madcapper who three weeks ago dipped his famed profile in Hollywood concrete (TIME, Sept. 16); from Elaine Barrie, 25, who before their marriage changed her name from Jacobs to sound more like Barrymore; for causing him "grievous mental suffering and great bodily injury"; in Los Angeles...
Indians are different today. Oliver La Farge's sentimentally illustrated book is a short (140page) angry account of the crimes which the U. S. has committed against them since their vanquishing, of the reforms that have begun to take shape within the past few years. Possibly the most grievous crime has been the elimination of every possibility of stress: the strong tensions of hunting, free wandering, warfare have been long replaced by the lethal depressants of poverty, ostracism, boredom...
...readers-in-general, these last scraps from Katherine Mansfield's notebooks are of automatic importance to her cult of admirers, of genuine literary interest as well. A writer's scraps often reveal him better than his letters or his journals; and Mansfield is here revealed in her grievous living, in her streaks of curious repellence, and in her unique, luminous perceptions. Since her perceptions often had the instantaneousness of magnesium-powder flashes, some of her brief entries contain some of her best work...