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Golden Pens. At the close of the Conference, last week, the Pacts were signed with august pomp. As gold pens scratched and Ambassador bowed to Ambassador, the parable of "mother, father and children" seemed to evaporate and vanish. In the iridescent words of President-Elect Herbert Hoover, uttered at Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 31): "There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...
...ever the spirit of liberty should vanish from the rest of the Union, it could be restored by the generous store held by the people in this brave little State of Vermont...
...Send no busses, have no picnic, vanish...
However, since real-life Ogres no longer vanish, in the fairy tale sense, the six Loewenstein servants were reduced to explaining that, although they had not felt the open door blast, still the door must have opened, and Captain Loewenstein must have leaped to voluntary or accidental death...
...Fascist march on Rome was wholly militant and partially armed. It compelled a quavering cabinet to yield, to vanish. Very different was a march upon Bucharest last week, staged by 60,000 peaceful peasants. Their revered leader, Dr. Juliu Maniu, threatened no more than that the peasants would wait quietly in the streets for four days, meanwhile petitioning Premier Vintila Bratiano to resign...