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...politics. Of all U. S. Presidents, George Washington alone escaped. After his unanimous election he was hailed by a happy populace singing Yankee Doodle and Welcome, Mighty Chief. Back-biting and banner-waving came in with Adams and Jefferson. The New Englander was a "Monarchist," the Virginian a "maniac who sympathized with the French Revolution." In 1797 Adams voters paraded to Hail Columbia! and Adams and Liberty! Four years later the Jeffersonians were crying...
After the next war, let's hope the conquerors will practice the lessons of the last. Imagine the silliness of it anyway, when you've just beaten a homicidal maniac who hates you, letting him loose to find a new blunderbuss. Any man with the brains God gave the glow-worm would know enough to disarm him completely, throw him naked into a jail, and keep a close watch on the implements coming to him with his necessaries of life...
...Germany, in fact, was a jail within whose bars any number of deadly instruments could be forged. That would merely have made it necessary for the victor to keep close watch on the maniac's activities, as well as imports. As soon as spies reported rearmament, military occupation would immediately follow, and the manufacture prevented...
...mistress but she had refused. Brand felt momentarily better. Then in turn he visited: a less talented neurotic, on the verge of a nervous breakdown; his ex-chauffeur; a down-&-out book-reviewer. Three men on the list he failed to see. One, a religious maniac, had shot himself; another, a famed athlete, had disappeared; the third, an elderly artist who had painted Christina in the nude before her marriage, died before Brand could reach...
...Government giving the "violence" of anti-British articles in Italian newspapers as their reason for flinging a vast display of naval might into the Mediterranean. Never before has the Power of the Press been thus saluted by British statesmen. Numerous British newsorgans last week were calling Premier Mussolini a maniac and London's Sunday Referee published an article hopefully suggesting that Italians will rise under Crown Prince Umberto and Air Marshal Balbo in a "revolt against the Dictator." Neutrals observed that, if the British "reason" is valid, Adolf Hitler may, with even better reason, use the excuse of press attacks...