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...Beloved sons and exiles of a Spain so dear to us and now so desolate that it fills our hearts with an utterly inexpressible tumult of afflicting and conflicting feelings and emotions. . . . You have been robbed and despoiled of all things. You have been hunted and set upon to death in cities and villages, in dwellings of men and on mountain tops. . . . These tragic happenings in Spain speak to Europe and the whole world and proclaim once more to what extent the very foundations of all order, of all culture, of all civilization, are being menaced. This menace, it must...
...camp was patronized by 254 "couples," 109 of whom came from Dallas. Only seven gave their right names, but S. M. U. snoopers took their automobile license numbers, discovered their identities. These were not disclosed, but a map showing the location of their homes was circulated, caused tremendous tumult, for most of the "couple trade" came from the better parts of town. Concluded S. M. U.'s investigators...
...newshawks who have for a century considered that the world's greatest news exchange was London. Last week a British foreign correspondent for the London Daily Herald spoke up for his country's onetime monopoly on world news when George Slocombe offered the U. S. his The Tumult & the Shouting...
...evolve from the War a neat, tight, old-fashioned victory settlement with Germany. At these doomed gatherings, now being repudiated by a fresh generation of statesmen, there was no more familiar sight than the large red beard of the amiable British Bohemian, George Slocombe. Twice, he claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France...
...that cultured old Jew announced: "The entire efforts of the Popular Front aim at reviving all the sources of national activity. And such revival is impossible without large confidence from the country itself. Therefore, we would be going directly against our own aims were we to precipitate disorders and tumult...