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...always been a disciplined democracy," President Benes told the nation. "I am talking to all of you-Czechs, Slovaks, Germans and all other nationalities . . . I believe the German people, as well as the Czechs, Slovaks and all others, desire to work together in quiet. . . . I have always been an optimist and my optimism today is greater than ever. I have an unshakable faith in the State, in its health, in its power, in its ability to withstand pressure, in its splendid army and in the unshakable spirit of the whole people. . . . I believe that on the basis of new proposals...
President Benes believes that the "Fascintern" will collapse of its own armor-plated weight. He thinks the job of the democracies is to avoid war at almost any cost until time comes to their side. Eduard Benes is thus an optimist. He refuses to believe that Germany will attack his little State. His optimism he bases on three considerations...
...first was a suicide for love of Cristine, but lives on in the mind of a grief-mad mother. Another, the one who wooed her in verse, is now a slick crook. The composer (Harry Baur), of whose lyric tribute she was gaily unappreciative, has turned priest. The optimist (Raimu) who was going to be president is mayor of his village, is about to wed his cook. She traces the next to the Marseille water front. There the cameras are literally tilted, and with shrewdly-angled photography emphasize the skidding career of the hagridden, one-eyed, epileptic physician she finds...
Yugoslavia is one of the few European states which does not recognize the Soviet Union and encourages militant White Russians to colonize in Yugoslavia. "Yugoslavia does not adhere to any ideological bloc," concluded Europe's No. 1 Optimist last week, "but will continue to support the League of Nations...
...that it gained by that advice did not save it from the hard times which descended upon it and Wall Street's three other financial dailies.* Not until 1935 did Mr. Macfadden heed his own good advice by selling the Investment News. Last week his successor, Haydock ("Eternal Optimist") Miller, followed Macfadden's precept and example by bowing the Investment News out of existence...