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Artemus Gates and the Navy know that, as a backstop for the Philippines, the Marianas will be vital to the preservation of a Pax Americana in the Pacific...
Sued for Divorce. Doris Duke Cromwell, 30, tobacco-golden heiress to some $50,000,000 ; in a surprise action by James Henry Roberts ("Jimmy") Cromwell, 47, serious-talking-and-writing (The Voice of Young America, Pax Americana) playboy, short-time U.S. Minister to Canada ; eight years after their marriage, one week before her Reno residence would permit her to file a Nevada suit ; in Trenton...
...McWilliams, and a salesman for Nazi agent George Sylvester Viereck's Flanders' Hall Publishing Company. He was made a captain (Grand Central District) in the underground Army of Christ, alias the Iron Guard, alias the Midtown Sporting Club ("interested in shooting rabbits, see?"), alias the American Phalanx (PAX for short "In Latin it means peace...
...Pacelli's grandfathers were Vatican functionaries. His father was dean of the Vatican law corps. Young Pacelli practically grew up in church. As a boy he played in the piazza of Rome's Santa Maria della Pace, from whose wall he took his personal motto: Opus justitiae pax (The work of justice is peace...
...property by rioters, revolutionaries, or plain bandits and pirates. Supplementing this strong arm was the practice of extraterritoriality : the setting up of courts to administer British law so that entrepreneurs might be spared the more extreme abuses of the local legal apparatus. Law backed by force made the Pax Britannica the assurance of peace and fair play prerequisite to any long-term investment...