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Those who profess to believe that the Balkan pot is about to boil over into active warfare were not surprised last week when the Chicago Herald-Examiner (Hearst) printed, exclusively, excerpts from "secret instructions sent from Kemals [Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey] foreign office to the Turkish minister at Belgrade." This document was "intercepted by a secret agent of one of the Balkan powers." In it, Dictator Kemal outlines his country's moves in the event of a Balkan conflict, as follows...
Speaking of their religion, Luther continued, "The Lapps fear the unknown, and their religion for the most part is only a nominal one." The greater part of the Lapps profess to the doctrines of the Lutheran Church...
...insinuating blandishments of their words lurks the gravest error, which tends totally to undermine the very foundations of the Catholic faith. . . . All men understand . . . the duty of believing absolutely God's revelations and obeying His commands. For this purpose, Christ founded the Church on earth. All those who profess themselves Christians cannot but believe that one Church and one Church alone, was founded by Christ. When we enquire . . . which this Church is . . . then all are not in agreement...
...mind companionate marriage is the debasement of a sacred institution. Frankly it is a lot of trash, and I am convinced that most of the people who profess to believe in it and who uphold it are hypocritical and shallow," stated Mae Murray, gorgeous blond Paramount movie star, in an interview last night with a CRIMSON reporter, after having just answered her curtain calls at the Metropolitan. "In order that this may not sound contradictory," she continued, "when one considers my several marriages, I can only say that I have always held matrimony sacred, and consider it indispensable to ultimate...
French Senator Henry de Jouvenel, recently turned "traitor" to the League of Nations, as many internationalists profess, declared that the Spirit of Locarno was not enough to secure the peace of Europe. In voicing such expression he was speaking for the French Nationalists (the Poincareists) whose suspicion of Germany is deeprooted...