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...insult to every subscriber and an outrage to public decency; and I have a mighty good notion to tell you that you need not send another copy of your otherwise good magazine to me. I think the reputation of your publication has dropped at least no per cent...
Entering a Madrid cafe one evening last fortnight, Lieutenant Miguel Primo de Rivera bustled up to General Queipo de Llano, recently author of an "insulting" letter to the onetime Dictator. Serene, the General sat at a corner table, elegantly sipping deviled coffee (with brandy), secure in the belief that a mere lieutenant would not dare violently to resent the insult of a general...
...have patience, but I haven't. But what I want to ask General Smuts is what he meant when he associated the Negro with the jackass-I mean the ass -what he meant when he called us 'docile animals.' . . . I'm sure no insult was meant but when he used those words, it hurt. It cut like a two-edged sword through the heart of every Negro and we Negroes would leave this hall with a bad taste in our mouth if no explanation was forthcoming...
Within a few hours Paris scare-sheets screamed that France, grossly insulted in the person of Ambassador Herbette, would break off diplomatic relations with Russia. By next morning, however, cooler counsels prevailed, and Le Temps, semi-official organ of the French Foreign Office said: "If there was an insult, it was not to France, but to Rumania. . . . With a government like that at Moscow it is a singularly delicate and always ungrateful task to attempt to perform good offices...
Isvestia, official news organ of the Soviet Government, saw the note as "adding insult to Stimson's meddling injury," denounced the "cynical insolence of the Rumanian Government, whose troops and gendarmes still occupy our Province of Bessarabia." Happily for Rumanians, they were prevented by strict censorship from hearing that they are "third-class," from knowing that their eight-year-old King Mihai has been grossly insulted, his honor sullied, his puissance mocked...