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...thirteenth of June, 1823, Byron sailed from London in his crazy round-bottomed tub, the "Hercules." "They all say I can be of use to Greece," he wrote to Trelawney, "I do not know how--nor do they; but, at all events, let us go." Ypsilanti lay festering in Metternich's Austrian oubliette, but to Byron's sanguine hope the prospect was bright. George Gordon, Lord Byron, and the Hetairia Philike, that secret sodality of Hellenic patriots, should make Greece free...
They were his last lines. No Moslem scimitar, but the blundering of his incompetent doctors bled the life-blood from him. On Easter Monday, 1824 he murmered "I must sleep now," and was gone. Two years later politicians, adventurers, and secretaries made Greece free. They desire to destroy Metternich's system...
...most Austrians he is a politely limp handshaker, but to hearty knuckle-grinders he can return a grip of steel. In the Dollfuss character, nothing is so important as his ardent, almost fanatical Catholicism. Each morning, before going to the same big sunny office in the Chancellery that Prince Metternich used, he prays for half an hour. Just before church comes his exercise, on his knees too. With his brown-haired German wife Elwine looking on, he plays horsie for half an hour with their two chubby and attractive children: Eva, 5, and Rudolf (better known as Rudi...
...state was founded on the happy will of thirty million Manchurians. All this is too naive for Mr. Kawakami, who builds up a really coherent and credible defense for his countrymen on the warp of a new political thesis. This thesis holds that the white man, since Metternich developed the principle of wholesale intervention, has held that principle his exclusive preserve, and is inclined to view with anger any Japanese poaching. Thus the League Council continued, despite the Lytton report, to speak of the national Chinese government as if such a government did exist, without regard to the fact that...
...Affectionate Viennese nickname combining Millimeter and Metternich-Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince Metternich-Winneburg, Austria's great 19th Century Chancellor. A current Vienna cracker last week was that a new issue of stamps will show Dollfuss' picture, lifesize. Dollfuss has made it known that he enjoys jokes about his size...