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...simultaneous arrival of Messrs. Krassin and Sadoul had its effect. Communists everywhere became as busy as bees in an overturned hive...
Great throngs rushed to Geneva. The Secretariat of the League under the direction of Sir Eric Drummond, was a hive of industry. Statesmen, politicians, journalists, interested spectators seized every available accommodation that the venerable city could offer. More people were there than have ever been at any time in its whole history. All the great nations of the world (except the U. S., Russia, Germany) sent delegations, and, with those delegations, families and secretaries, stenographers, etc. In two days it was estimated that 20,000 people had poured into the city. Among the notables present were: Premier MacDonald, Premier Herriot...
...petted and ultimately "Americanized." With what feigned anxiety they apprehend the approach of an autocracy where in there will be, and should be, a moral standard to be reached before an immigrant sets sets foot on American shores! Ah! It is too bad indeed for the workers in a hive to lay up honey only to have it devoured by moths...
...roads were a mark for the 77's and larger German guns. The dead were just dragged to the side of the road. It was blazing hot, and you can well imagine the stench which prevailed with all of those dead men and horses around. The woods were a hive of living and mechanical apparatus, while the air howled with the crash of guns and the buzz of aeroplane motors...
...unit." In this connection Mr. Hubbard strongly recommended Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Life of the Bee" as the greatest book of the decade and as particularly applicable to our own affairs. "A bee alone has no intelligence, alone can make no honey or even support itself, but a hive of bees has a great and magnificent intelligence. If a man even fancies himself to be entirely alone his brain reels, his reason totters and he is incapable of thinking or acting in a rational manner. All our activities, whether of the mind or body must, therefore be bound...