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...Bethlen of Hungary in the following form: ". . . The Council of the League, having before it a request from the Czechoslovak, Jugoslav and Rumanian Governments and having learned from the press that the Hungarian Government is going to sell the objects to which the request refers, thinks it would be prudent to delay this project, the matter involved coming before the Council in a few days...
Still more appalling is the task of taking effective steps against the Dry Dragon, a passive enemy feared even in the Occident. It is of record that under the Chou Dynasty, more than two millenniums ago, some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome Chinese efforts, both before and since, have availed less in relieving droughts than have their partially successful flood control methods (success being measured by the proud statement of Chinese scholars that the great Yellow River has completely altered its course only three times in the last millennium...
...Soon prudent gourmets of celebrity turned from the Count back to his writings, pondered once more the essence of his philosophy: "Anglo-Saxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it hard . . . to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself. . . . Even in my childhood the words of Jesus, Woman what have I to do with thee?? spoke more directly to me than any other. . . . Only he who lives for the supernatural can, in the deepest sense, live for himself...
...factors made prudent and possible the act of M. le President: 1) The Bank of France now holds sufficient gold or foreign securities to redeem every centime of the national paper currency, apt to be presented, at its present value of 25 francs to the dollar; 2) So great is the reviving confidence of French peasants in securities payable in francs that they are now buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability...
...State refused to say why, there were two good reasons for raising the ban: 1) French industries are so conservatively managed, offer such sound investment opportunities, that U. S. financiers are impatient to do business with them; 2) Because a French general election looms this Spring, it is prudent for the U. S. to make a friendly gesture, tending to further the election of Deputies favorable to ratification by France of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement...