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...dollars. He scolded: "The Foreign Office must learn that we have become a poor nation and must cut our foreign policy accordingly. It is useless to have grandiose ideas that we cannot afford to put into operation . . . and our first duty to ourselves and to the world is to safeguard our solvency." They were his last words of advice; he died soon after...
...referring to the invulnerability of the College's security system maintained to safeguard examinations and testing material from malicious students. "I've been here many years and not only has there been no trouble in my tenure, but I've never even heard of any before I got here," he mused complacently...
...Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said no single word in Tiso's behalf...
Nevertheless, as a safeguard, the Government intended to continue rationing of meat, butter, sugar and preserves for many months. The last wartime restriction to go would almost surely be rent control. As far as any one could see end of that was still several years away...
...means been laid on the shelf. It will be studied despite the failure of the convention to recommend that it be studied. It will be laid alongside the [Lambeth] Quadrilateral* with a challenge to its opponents to point out wherein it diverges from or fails to safeguard the essentials which that instrument sets forth...