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...circus travel "as far inland as Beaumont, Tex." This city is a port, according to Rand McNally, the Southern Pacific Railroad, my own observations, the United States Shipping Board and other authorities. Of course if Mr. Tully insists that it is inland perhaps you can prevail upon these authorities to change their statements...
Although this declaration seemed to promise more stability at Hankow, it was significant that Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the great Doctor, quietly retired to a suburb of Hankow last week and announced that she would withdraw entirely from the political activity there "until better councils prevail...
...will and high purpose [at official parleys, such as the current one at Geneva] are striving with might and main for that which is good, but their councils are menaced. They are opposed by the sinister attitude of unworthy men. With bated breath we watch. Is good will to prevail or envy, hatred and malice? White the conferees meet and the world waits, brooding fear hovers in the background. . . . In any republic worthy of the name, its citizens must be eternally vigilant...
...There are those who hold it unrighteous to buy petroleum from Russia on the theory that to do so would be to purchase goods wrongfully confiscated from Russian subjects by the present governing power. If that view should generally prevail, then Russia could export nothing, as not only petroleum but other industries in Russia were nationalized. Is it more unrighteous to buy from Russia than to sell to it? Considerable purchases are made by Russia in the United States of cotton and other products...
...apologia Colonel Lawrence writes finely in his preface: "They [the Arabs] were as unstable as water, and, like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coast of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed. . . . One such wave (and not the least) I raised...