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...have tried to apply Sanctions without having in the first place organized them. Hence their inefficiency and their danger. . . . Britain is responsible for the persistent lack of organization of Sanctions. ... It is our right also to recognize that Britain's brusque reversal constitutes an injustice for Italy, a peril for Peace...
SAMUELS PEPYS : THE YEARS of PERIL -Arthur Bryant-Macmillan...
...other hand, he might have been buried forever in a respectable obscurity. With a laudable desire to play down Pepys's human frailty, to play up his first-rate abilities. Author Bryant is trying to rehabilitate Pepys as a serious character. Samuel Pepys: The Years of Peril is the second volume of what is to.be a biographical trilogy, and the last word on Pepys...
...turned, away from the Democrats and in favor of the Republicans." It was one of the first such gleams in months. Along with gloom at New Deal doings, there has lately crept into his dispatches a note of despair at his own inability to make citizens understand their peril. "No amount of explanation seems able to make the country see. . . ." he writes. And: "I am not sure that enough of the public can be brought to see the deeper implications...
...Sanctum late last evening with mixed feelings: Haile Selassic prays in the mountains.... Italian forces invade Ethiopia.... There's an Oriental sky over the Charles tonight.... London assures Paris; Paris assures London.... Soviet plans to build bath tubs and bakeries for Eskimos.... Roosevelt warns war a potent peril.... Farley designs a new stamp.... Bulgaria foils conspiracy to overthrow King Boris.... Japanese impatient with Nanking.... Women rebel against food prices.... Skirts to be longer this fall.... Stocks fall sharply.... Largest peacetime treasury deficit.... Wheat prices...