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...tried, the President could not escape from the present. He kept thinking of the broken-gaited Paris conference (see INTERNATIONAL), and fumbled for analogies between the world's ills today and those of the Union 81 years ago. Thoughtfully he read the inscription on the peace monument: "Peace eternal in a nation united." Solemnly he said: "That is what we want. But let's change that word [nation] to 'world.' Then you'd really have something...
...customers hoped that Sanborn's would not become just another Walgreen's store. Anyway, as a historic monument, nothing in the Casa can be changed without Government permission. Sanborn even had to get an okay to hang pictures. Said Walgreen's vice president and treasurer Robert G. Knight: "Sanborn's is unique and we'll keep it that...
Last week Austria was still a shattered monument to the breakdown of Big Three cooperation. In Paris, Jimmy Byrnes, as a key point in the new U.S. positive policy, tried to begin redemption of the pledge. Curtly, Molotov told Byraes that Austria was not on the agenda and refused even to discuss putting it there...
...nimble-minded, solid citizen Schacht juggled accusations as though they were blocked marks. He could not deny that he had gambled on Hitler's success (once Schacht had said that with Hitler he was either "walking to a monument or a scaffold"). Now Schacht took the line that, as a good Christian and as a good businessman, he had always opposed war and wasteful cruelties. "Hitler deceived the world, Germany and me. . . . I would have killed Hitler personally if given the chance...
Bombs and artillery blasted his Madrid studio to rubble. His prodigious monument to the leader of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias (an eleven-panel mural containing 140 life-size figures), was destroyed. But the Fascists could never touch Luis Quintanilla the artist.* His drypoints, safely scattered in museums all over the world, continued to speak with the social force-if not the human weight -of Goya's best...