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...strong young Riza, born on the shores of the Caspian Sea, was mustered into a Persian regiment of Cossacks. He tasted battle chiefly against bandits and won steady promotion to the rank of Sartip with 3,000 Cossacks under his command. For a fateful coup d'état it was Sartip Riza who was sought out in 1921 by Persia's wily Saiyid ZiaudDin, a wealthy newspaper publisher and astute political wangler...
...sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a jew it means grief, To the law it's relief, But it is deafh to Bonnie and Clyde.* But they did not bury them side by side, because Bonnie...
Your [March 19] story of M. Chiappe's garbled telephone conversation and the à la rue-dans la rue misunderstanding, which resulted in French troops opening fire upon Paris civilians, brings to my mind a curiously parallel story which was widely circulated after the coup d'état of Napoleon III. According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux...
...money to arm the Left against the Right: "I said: 'Unless the Government disarms the Fascist, Royalist and Nationalist organizations it will render inevitable the arming of the Left and extreme Left forces'. . . .Tomorrow it won't be an uprising, but a coup d'état. The forces which are being armed will descend together into the streets and the working class also will descend the same day. What can be predicted is not the issue of the struggle but the destruction of part of Paris...
...clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...