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...that governs the relations of men also covers the diplomatic dealings of nations, which should be based on truth and justice. Citizens acting for governments cannot set aside their "personal dignity," nor "the very law of their being, which is the moral law." Nations therefore must eliminate "every trace of racism," drop all colonial ambitions, protect ethnic minorities and political refugees. Rich nations have the obligation to assist the poor; all nations should resolve their disputes by negotiation rather than war. Since "people live in constant fear lest the storm that every moment threatens should break upon them." world leaders...
...times. The plot deals with the fortunes of Guy van Stratten, a tough American smuggler who falls in with Gregory Arkadin, a wealthy but mysterious citizen of the world. Van Stratten's attempt to blackmail the millionaire through his daughter Raina proves unsuccessful, but the American is hired to trace Arkadin's unknown past...
Body Blows. Although it took its present corporate form in 1911, Bank Note likes to trace its history back through 50-odd companies to a colonial engraver named Robert Scot. Until the Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing opened in 1862. the company printed virtually all U.S. currency. A changing world usually means good times for Bank Note, but change has also dealt the company some severe blows. It lost its biggest customer for paper money when China went Communist in 1949, lost another big customer two years ago when Cuba's Castro switched to Czech-printed money. Bank...
...household, typed the manuscripts, cared for the dogs, screened the visitors and tended the vegetable gardens that they planted almost anywhere the two of them lived. She knitted the shapeless woolen garments and heavy woolen stockings Gertrude favored. She seems, in fact, to have disappeared virtually without a trace into Gertrude Stein's life. The reader never learns, for instance, what became of her father (her mother died when she was young) or her younger brother. After her departure from San Francisco back in 1907, she returned only once - and that was with Gertrude Stein on a lecture tour...
...whereabouts. Strangely, when he got the 19-page list, page 18 was missing; some German official (perhaps Goring) wanted to keep Il Duce from finding certain of the paintings, including the Pollaiuolos. The inventory helped Italy recover nearly all the paintings it listed, but until last December no trace was found of those on the missing page...