“So fierce is his gaze, so peremptory his order, that even the shoppers forget the cold for a moment and stare in undisguised curiosity at the man with the red hackle.”

“Disobedience to a peremptory order of the court would be sufficient to satisfy the first condition.”

“The deliberate ambiguity of Curzon's policy explains in part why he and Poincare acceded to Mussolini's peremptory request to meet them at Territet.”