ten o'clock in the morning
The private secretary and the stenographer were a swarthy young man and woman with full lips and small moustaches . M. Croza was clever , determined , and patriotic ; he believed firmly in the future of the Latin American republics , and particularly in that of Paraguay ; in the necessity of imbuing into the staff of the League of Nations more Latin American blood , and in the desirability of making Spanish a third official language in the Assembly . He disliked the Secretariat as at present constituted , thinking it European , narrow , and conceited , and he could , when orating on topics less noble and more imminent than a world peace , make a very relevant and acute speech . To him , already thus busy at ten o'clock in the morning , entered a hotel messenger with a card bearing the name of the correspondent of the _ British Bolshevist _ , and the words `` Urgent and private business . '' `` I suppose he wants a statement on the Paraguay attitude towards Argentine meat , '' M. Croza commented . `` I had better see him . '' He turned to his stenographer , and said -LRB- in Spanish , in which tongue , it may be observed , it sounded even better than in the English rendering -RRB- : `` And so the gentle doves of peace comma pursued down stormy skies by the hawks of war comma shall find at length ... shall find at length ... .