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...evening, Duplessis went out to Ste. Marguerite park. The crowd standing in the rain cheered and whistled. Motorists honked their horns. "This is a demonstration that we will safeguard the rights, prerogatives and liberties of the people," cried ebullient Maurice, and the crowd roared. "Our rivals have insulted us but I am willing to forgive and forget ... I thank you for this marvelous triumph...
...principle of Naziism is the Führerprinzip. This means victory over the parliamentary system and over majority rule in all spheres of life and consolidation of all politically and productively superior forces of the nation. . . . Naziism intends to bring about the final rebirth of the nation and to safeguard the continuation of existence of the Reich, in the definite belief in its historic mission and in the future of the German people...
...Governor Wallace.' " To keep the Kid from being tagged as an informer, he was (by his own planning) captured, arrested on a charge of cattle-stealing, imprisoned comfortably in the Patron Store. He testified, then grew doubtful of Wallace's promise to safeguard him, and escaped before his own trial...
Coops & Coups. At 30 Donaldson passed rigorous tests to join the select ranks of postal inspectors-the trusted men who safeguard the mails, protect the public from thefts and frauds, keep the service 99.9% honest. Postal inspection is the oldest and least publicized investigative and crime detection agency of the Government. Thoroughness and cold efficiency are its tenets. Donaldson served as an inspector in Kansas City for 17 years, sometimes as "the guy in the coop." (In large postoffices there are concealed, peep-holed galleries from 'which inspectors watch clerks and sorters suspected of mail thefts...
...more than possible, the wealthy owners of Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes riding on a successful partition of Palestine demand a safeguard beyond the efforts of a weak state militia. As the originator of the plan, the United Nations can do the Jewish people a great service and fulfill its purpose in the eyes of the world...