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Nevertheless, Paris remained. The futility of its resistance simply emphasizes the heroism of the defenders. For four months the city underwent a continual bombardment. Thiers and Gambetta, balloon ascensions across the Prussian lines, the relief army from the South, the National Guard, and the final triumphal entry of the besiegers, followed by the proclamation in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles of the German Empire--the whole is a fantasy worthy of the Arabian Nights, with a note of tragedy added...
After the Harvard plates had been carefully set out, and as carefully removed are they were sullied by food; after the turkeys and the small pink "roast sucking pig" with candied eyes had been carried about the room in triumphal procession, after men's bellies had been filled, and men's minds put stress; after all these things, then came the play...
...avail, however, for on Saturday night a large limousine came sailing down Dunster Street, at a high rate of speed, failed to stop before the gate, and carried away two of the posts in making its triumphal entry. A tow car had to be called to take away the wreck...
...girls collapsed. Twice on the closing day of the Eucharistic Congress 1,000,000 people fervently massed in Palermo Park for a pontifical mass celebrated by Cardinal Pacelli, and a long triumphal procession. Through loudspeakers at the close of the mass came the firm voice of Pope Pius XI. In a benediction broadcast to the world he said: "Only where the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ rules are there offers of promises. Only so, in fact, will this poor world, which we see afflicted with fraternal and regal bloodshed, be able to find true and stable peace...
...Bucharest the Rumanian Chamber made him an honorary subject of King Carol II and gave him the first Rumanian passport valid for the Soviet Union, which he had just induced His Majesty to recognize (TIME, July 9). On a triumphal progress up the Danube to Jugoslavia, Oldster Barthou was welcomed by athletic young subjects of King Alexander who swam out to greet him with French flags clenched in their teeth...