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...after King George's recall, both the King and Venizelos had discovered that Fascist-minded General George Kondylis was far more dangerous to them both than either of them was to the other. King George personally granted Venizelos amnesty and Venizelos wrote, "I say from my heart, 'Vive le Roi!'" Nevertheless he prudently stayed on in Paris...
...Vive la République...
...selfish & feudal powers & privileges of your party. It is your party that counts, not France, nor its peasants & petit bourgeois. . . . And you would bring war (not of defense, which is right & just) misery & distress, as though we have not suffered enough with our four invasions between 1814 and 1914. . . . Vive la République always! HELOISE COLOMBE...
...curtain rose, stately white-bearded King Leopold of Belgium unexpectedly appeared, seemed puzzled when the orchestra broke into God Save the King and Mortier, out of his head, jabbered, "It's not you!" At the height of this confusion Edward VII arrived, almost went unnoticed until Mortier, shouting "Vive le Roil" ran back and forth crying, "I have two kings...
Every leading Briton seemed on the qui vive last week to thwart Benito Mussolini's candid designs on Ethiopia. Political fossils like bemonocled Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain, shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, Tea-pot-Tempester Winston Churchill- and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who has lately collected 11,000,000 British straw votes for Peace, all hustled in to see Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...