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Signers of the appeal were President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker of the House José Tous Soto. Cabled they: "Ours is the only Spanish-American country whose voice is not heard in Havana during the Pan-American Conference. . . . Justice, nothing but, justice, is what we ask as citizens of America, as faithful Christians and as children of Almighty God, who gave to us the same inalienable rights which your great republic knew how to invoke when declaring for independence at the memorable Philadelphia Convention...
...issue?a joke printed in French, and making a play of the words "habits" (clothes) and "explorer" (to go through). "Translation on page 31," said the editors. "Ha! this matter must be salacious," cried the vulgar reader: ". . . habits de mon mari. J'ai I'habitude de les explorer tous les soirs." Though ignorant of French he would not deign to turn to page 31; no, and what's more he would put the magazine where his wife could not get at it. Had he bothered to read the translation, he would have discovered that the evil witticism was as follows...
...Croix de Guerre may be learned from the following document which each received from the French Government: "Pendant quinze jours, assure nuit et jour, sur une route de montagne difficile, et constamment battue par les projectiles ennemis, Pevacuation de nombreux blesses, avec un zele et un devouement dignes de tous les eloges...
...effet, nous n'ignorons pas qu'a tous interessants travaux une detente est parfois necessaire aussi, croyez bien, que je suis heureux que mon entree a Harvard vous l'ait procuree...