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Probably as much as can be done on paper along this line he has done. It is strongly conducive to the right way of thinking on the subject of war but of course, as always when you announce that you are out to slay a dragon, there is the question--"How well have you slain it?" A book--a serious book even--is inevitably rather futile in combating such a tremendous problem, because the thing just can't be done so easily Milne's book is the cream of the anti-war arguments thus far in circulation, however, much better...
Again adjournment was necessary to shut Félix up, but more effective measures to discredit him followed. France's so-called grande presse d'information, the big newsorgans controlled by substantial interests, undertook to slay him with ridicule and such "information" as that last year on Bastille Day he posted stickers in Paris lavatories inviting all Frenchmen of courage to meet him on a designated street corner the following day for the purpose of attacking the Bank of France...
...amusing apology for having written it. When he began his literary career, certain topics, including religion, college education, youth and the possessors of great wealth, were sacred in popular magazines, while other topics, like sex, cigarets and alcohol, were absolutely taboo. A character in the thick of battle might slay Indians, but he could not smoke. When Author Flandrau gave one of his travel-harassed heroes the satisfaction of a long, cold highball, it came out in print that the boy got only a glass of lemonade. Looking back on his career and that of others who also blamed editors...
...ratio. Japan, while demanding naval equality with the U. S., would apparently concede superiority to Britain, an arrangement sure to cause bad blood to boil between Washington and London. In Tokyo the instant result was to set Black Dragon patriots to work on plots to slay Japan's London Delegation, on the theory that in conceding even tentative superiority to Britain they had betrayed Japan. Jittery with alarm, Ambassador Matsudaira in London denied that he had ever dreamed of a 5-4-4 ratio and served notice that Japan will scrap all ratios by denouncing the Washington Naval Treaty...
Paris, Oct. 12--Albest detectives of the French Surete Nationale tonight were engaged in tracking down members of an international murder syndicate, two of whom emissaries admitted today they were sent to France to Slay Alexander I, King of Jugoslavia...