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Quoting Plutarch Hart concluded, "A noble heart knows no insult...
...sympathetic toward the D. A. R. in most matters, but I feel that in this case they have acted in the only decent manner possible. After all, it is better to pique Mrs. Roosevelt than to insult the entire white population of a big city...
Your special remark to artikel "Panama" Feb. 13, that the german sailors was pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes in Cuba is untrue and on insult to us Cubans. Any visitors no matter if they are American, English, German etc marines or Jewish imigrants is allways looked up with respect here...
Winston Churchill, arch-exponent of Anglo-French military cooperation, complained that the British attitude of "one ally should do the paying while the other must do the dying" was an insult to France. Up rose William Shepherd Morrison, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who speaks in the House of Commons for Admiral of the Fleet Lord.Chatfield, Minister for the Coordination of Defense, surprisingly agreed with Mr. Churchill and said significantly: "Once involved in war we could not proceed upon a principle of limited liability." That statement, M.P.s believed, meant that Britain would send another expeditionary force to France...
Fortnight ago, M.P.s in the House of Commons took Sir Reginald to task for his residence abroad. Laborite Frederick J. Bellenger called it an "insult to public opinion." Laborite Albert V. Alexander pointed out scornfully that the General saves income taxes by living abroad. Joining the attack was Colonel Sir Joseph Nail, Conservative. Defending Sir Reginald was Oliver Stanley, president of the Board of Trade. Sir Reginald flew to London, denied he intended to resign, with military gruffness termed the M.P.s' attack "a lot of idle chatter. More like village gossip. Pity they haven't anything better...