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Since the Anglo-Saxon nations have decided for conventional security by majority vote, they have taken much of the more blatant drama out of government. For the thrills of sovereignty, a cabled connection with dictators or a censored story of revolution must suffice. When ballots replaced bullets in the determination of national policy, the obvious excitement left political life. In its place remain subtleties of verbal by play which not all can applaud...
Capitulation. During the two days of scattered fighting which ensued, some 500 Poles were killed. Government planes bombed Pilsudski's headquarters at the Saxon Palace. His troops tightened the siege of the Nationalists and the President at the Belvedere Palace. Then three Cabinet Ministers flew up and away in an airplane. The President, wearing a steel helmet, escaped by climbing over the wall of the Belvedere Palace and fled on foot. The Government's troops surrendered to Pilsudski...
...imaginative, Saxon gnomes and dwarfs shuffled their twisted, contorted bodies about the money markets of Manhattan last week. They were the blue-gummed, loose-wristed, grimacing gentry who ages ago clambered out of gloomy, endless pits in Saxony, bearing queer ores, green and blue and variegated, ores which they melted down with Loki's fires and pounded with Thor's hammer into shapes useful for the villagers...
These dwarfs and gnomes were the primitive Saxon miners of copper, lead, silver and nickelite (nickel arsenide) from mines which have been yielding their wealth for centuries. For 725 years, since the beginning of the 13th Century, a mine has been operated by the same company - the Mansfeld Mining and Smelting Co. - in Prussian-Saxony, northwest of Leipzig...
...unnecessary and inappropriate?for Havelock Ellis is neither sensational nor combative?to suggest, as does his flamboyant biographer, that he is another Leonardo, a Professor, a Nietzschean superman, an Anglo-Saxon Tagore, a full-blooded Shaw, a Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...