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...bring the dying Disarmament Conference to a quick and painless end by refusing to consider any plan that would allow Germany even partial disarmament, by refusing to admit Germany's reentrance to the Conference until French security had been guaranteed. The President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, mildest of men, looked straight at France's chief spokesman last week and snapped...
Hard Labor for all "atrocity mongers" who publish in Germany or abroad "false or grossly distorted statements" on conditions in the Reich. About the mildest sentence the People's Court can inflict is one month in jail for publishers, printers or booksellers who make, distribute or keep in stock, even unwittingly, treasonable publications. The People's Court was not organized in time last week to handle the 48 Hamburg Communists, members of the so-called "Red Navy" who conducted periodical raids on the Red Eagle Hotel, Nazi headquarters in Hamburg, during 1932 and 1933. A summary court sentenced...
Even so the committee on privilege assembled with snowy-crested Ramsay MacDonald as its chairman. In the House of Lords paunchy Lord Derby begged his peers' permission to testify before it. Should the charge be substantiated, the mildest punishment that the House can inflict will be to summon both Sir Samuel and Lord Derby to the Bar of the House, there to receive a good round scolding from the Speaker...
...consumption. This is not merely one isolated case, for I think that most of the cheap so-called blends are not only undrinkable slop but also contain quasi-poisons that give the after effects a peculiarly harrowing quality; many have found that on the morning after even the mildest imbibing their heads were apparently filled with large and elaborate firework displays...
Last but not least of the four heroes is Pietro Aretino, the bastard guttersnipe whose effrontery and wit always kept him in high society and hot water, whose scurrilous lampoons lambasted everyone from the Pope down. One of his mildest japes: when unpopular Pope Adrian VI died, a wreath appeared on his doctor's door, inscribed: "To the Deliverer of his country, S. P. Q. R." Of the four, Aretino's end was happiest. After tremendous ups & downs he settled in Venice, waxed fat and urbane, survived a tragic love affair and went down wenching...