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Therefore last week Helga and Gertrud, the two little granddaughters of Old Paul von Hindenburg, dutifully kept their starched dresses clean of grass stains and their opinions to themselves. They were not the only ones balked of celebrating the 81st Birthday of the President of the German Republic. Scores, nay, hundreds of civic organizations had applied for permits to parade and joyfully demonstrate, in Berlin, before the Presidential Mansion...
...this time German news organs were already thundering SCHWEINEHUND !! Nay, .one furious member of the German Delegation had actually to be restrained from assaulting M. Briand, at whom he yelled, "Slanderer! You know we are disarmed...
...Latvia's Keyserling the Englishman seems an "animal-man," a creature in which instinct and will dwarf brain, nay he seems "a horseman, with corresponding equine features." His most ruthless acts are forgiven and forgotten, because no one can blame an animal for its instinctive acts of acquisitive ferocity...
From this would seemingly follow the logical absurdity that Germany is more Red than Russia, nay most Red among the nations...
...Cambridge life must be the ambition of every editor, and a few New Yorker parodies would serve as admirable pick-me-ups to cure the hangover from which it has suffered. What Lampy needs now is not salts, but a few tall ones to keep up its good, nay, excellent spirits...