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...bill King Fuad refused to sign would have prevented a repetition of the 1928 coup d'état, when the puppet monarch dissolved Parliament and ruled with a puppet government headed by Mohamed Mahmud Pasha (TIME, July 30, 1928). Defied, wrathful Nahas Pasha replied to his sovereign by resigning and then- against all precedent-marched back into Parliament and, although no longer Prime Minister, asked and received a tempestuous vote of confidence...
...said. 'Here's your rat. A little the worse for wear, this sat is, I'm afraid, sir. A gentleman happened to step on it. You can't step on a nat,' he said, sententiously, 'not without hurting it. That tat...
Author Renn begins with the 1914 advance through Belgium. "We" cross rivers, take towns, shoot rifles. Deep in France, shells displace bullets and flying shrapnel forces "us" to dig into the earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication...
Chief reason for the flight of Vasil Radoslavoff was his connection with fox-bearded German Tsar Ferdinand. In 1923, Peasant-Prime Minister Stamboulisky was overthrown by a coup d'état and assassinated while trying to escape. Disgust with Stamboulisky brought renewed respect for Radoslavoff. People forgot that he had been prosecuted for corrupt practices before...
...Double Chorus) J. P. Foerster The Grim Guest (Double Chorus) J. Kricka On the Field Path J. P. Foerster "70,000" Leos Janacek National Folk-songs and Dances The Evening Star (Slovak) J. Kricka I Have No Joy (Czech) J. Jindrich The Presburg Barracks (Slovak) J. Kricka Tit for Tat (Czech Dance) H. Palla Cardas (Dance, dance and whirl ye around (Slovak) B. Pokorny