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...protest strongly the way in which you speak of our beloved King Leopold III of Belgium, when you say "Better to perish in beauty" [TIME, May 10]. The Belgians wish that His Majesty should continue in beauty as was his whole life, faultless and above reproach in the service of his people. Mr. Spaak himself has recognized publicly that the King's conduct has been wholly above reproach...
...Sire," he informed King Leopold from London exile, "the war is not finished . . . Politics do not consist of always choosing the best card. It is sometimes necessary to know how to play a bad card. At certain times it is better to perish in beauty than miserably to survive...
...suggestion, the current thesis for honors was established in its stead. By 1941, however, the Faculty voted to abolish this course, but a series of wartime rulings has succeeded in keeping the system alive. Now, with the "duration" rules swept from the books, the thesis for honors course will perish unless a new vote at a mid-May Faculty meeting saves it from oblivion...
...very different effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...
...were about to perish for lack of air," said Finance Minister Rene Mayer last week. "We had to smash the window with a single blow." Mayer chiefly meant that, without devaluation of the franc (TIME, Feb. 2), French recovery would have been stifled through inability to sell goods abroad. But for a few days last week, Rene Mayer and Premier Robert Schuman had French Socialists at their throats. As advocates of dirigisme (directed economy), Socialists did not like the breeze of free enterprise that threatened to blow through the smashed window...