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With British statesmen on holiday, dispatches from London last week were nonetheless rich in British character...
...limousines, most of them were bigwigs of the Nazi Reich who are privileged to come & go without a word of their movements in the German Press. Last week everything was ready for Hitler & Co. to execute one of the complicated kiss-kick-and-wheedle Nazi plays which European statesmen find so difficult to deal with...
Though Dictator Mussolini in negotiation is one of the coldest and most self-possessed statesmen in Europe, he always leaves a rattling war display in high exuberance. Last week he sped from the games to the most fecund little town in the Kingdom to expound his favorite rabbit philosophy of Empire. As the fathers & mothers of Potenza and their highly numerous offspring thronged around him with cheers, Orator Mussolini cried: "Those who have a right to Empire are the fecund peoples-those people who have the pride and the will to propagate their race on earth-VIRILE PEOPLES...
...felt that he could not have endured existence had it not been for Homer. Venerated by the country at large, hated by his own party, he fought the aristocrats of Boston when their selfish claims ran counter to the national welfare, was one of the greatest of living statesmen who was content to be known as one of the most modest poets the country had produced. An actor's letter asking his advice on Othello gave him more pleasure than all his political honors. And Harvard was educating such youngsters as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Oliver Holmes, John...
...people, a period, a place. Behind the extraordinary news in the papers, the decisive events described by historians, lies a mass of anonymous, miscellaneous human happenings, comprising the routine stuff of daily living. This is private history and, though it rarely gets into public history, it outweighs soldiers and statesmen, battles and booms, in the final balance of time...