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...College of Cardinals, I believe he is the most fitted for the role. In the capacity of secretary of state he has acquired Punic experience in dealing with problems of the papacy, which will prove invaluable during the present world crisis...
...inconclusively. The composite businessman who emerges from its cluster of facts is a puzzling figure. Not a severe critic, the author points out that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never run a factory. The gist of her argument is that businessmen's great failure has been their inability to develop...
...SCARLET BEAST-Francis Gerard- Longmans, Green ($2.50). Allegedly historical romance about the Punic Wars; a silly book...
...like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic War (149-146 B.C.) and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the Younger literally did destroy Carthage. He killed all the inhabitants, razed every building, sprinkled salt on the ground to prevent husbandry, dedicated the place to the gods of the infernal regions...
Turning from despair to triumph, he sketched a broad, flamboyant panorama of the potent quinquerernes* which carried two Roman armies to Africa for the Third Punic War. By them Carthage was destroyed (146 B.C.). The Mediterranean became a Roman lake...