This one stark fact stands out: Every agreement the Soviets entered into at Teheran in 1943 and Yalta in 1945, was ruthlessly broken, save for those palpably to their advantage. The same holds true for the Potsdam Conference of 1945.

For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.

It was painful for him to sit there, besotten and broken, and listen to others playing.

Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.