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Scratch a stolid Swiss and you have scratched the most orderly of men. In Berne last week the Swiss Government decided they could no longer wink at the disorderly Nazi practice of sending German spies abroad to kidnap or murder Germans who have "opposed Hitler" (TIME, Feb. 4). The case of Berthold Jacob seemed to Swiss one kidnapping too many, and last week spunky little Switzerland made it a cause celebre. Thundered Swiss Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta: "The Jacob affair constitutes a serious violation of Swiss sovereignty capable of shaking the destiny of Switzerland...
...kind of hoarse, high-flown preachments which used to win him cases before North Carolina jurors, some of the wise old Justices on the nation's highest bench looked displeased. Gradually they grew more tolerant of Solicitor General Bigg's performances. Latterly they have been seen to wink at one another while he was speaking. Once in the midst of an hour's oration to the court, Mr. Biggs was interrupted by Chief Justice Hughes: "Mr. Solicitor General, you have talked 45 minutes already. You had better take the next 15 minutes telling us what you want...
...students, the instructors are marked by a vast intellectual skepticism. So is President Leigh, a, bespectacled scholar whom students like despite his impersonality. When the outside lecturers, who come to Bennington nearly every evening, occasionally turn out to be stupid or dull, President Leigh is not above accepting a wink from a bored student, winking back at the girl...
Undoubtedly the State, War, and Navy Departments foresaw some of the evidence that has been produced: that U. S. arms makers had greased the palms of foreign officials who bought their arms; that the U. S. Government was inclined to wink at such bribery as long as it was not too flagrant; that War and Navy officials had encouraged and, in some cases. may even have assisted the sale of U. S.-made arms to foreign countries. The Government's purpose in so doing was plainly to keep the life blood of profit flowing through U. S. arms factories...
...Mayor of the city," to which of course Caetani made a gracious but reserved response. Mr. Blank, greatly embarrassed, whispered in my left ear: "Say, I don't know how to talk to this 'ere European royalty." Then I spotted my friend Belts, and gave him the wink, and he approached the head table, and again addressing Caelani quite formally, I said, "Your Excellency, you remember Mr. Belts who was with you in Alaska?" The Royal Italian Ambassador. God bless him, looked up with a start and with a beautiful smile exclaimed: "Why Bob Belts, you god-damned...