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...Even monkeys fall from trees," runs an old Japanese proverb. Last week the wiliest arborealist in the Japanese political jungle crashed ingloriously to earth. He was Liberal-Democrat Party Board Chairman Ichiro Kono, the beady-eyed, roly-poly little man who for a decade has personified in his countrymen's minds the guile of political party intrigue...
...this point, Kono's enemies recalled another Japanese proverb: "Nobody is more stupid than the man who allows his pot to be stolen on a moonlit night...
...enters the conclave Pope comes out cardinal," holds an old Roman proverb, indicating that predictions are as risky in papal elections as in any other. At the conclave which meets in the Vatican Oct. 25, several questions are likely to arise...
Although Laos had been a month without a government, a Laotian official explained: "We have a proverb which says, 'Do Not Hurry,' so the formation of a new government will probably take some time." Last week Laotian Deputies finally got around to confirming a new Premier, and he seemed to be worth waiting...
Your quotation from Mahan is a paraphrase of a very old proverb, and written in many tongues, namely, that "one sword keeps another in the scabbard." In an evil age, the man who bares the sword is the man who bears the peace...