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...Franco rhetoric about "Christian democracy" has disappeared. Falangist "Old Shirts," supposedly displaced, are active again. Franco's phony succession law (which will permit him to appoint his own political heir) is practically being written by Falangists. Said Franco last week: "The Falange is . . . the soul of our national resurrection...
Dukes Must Fag. Eton's apologists point out that it has its own kind of democracy. Unlike other English public schools. where masters appoint boys as prefects and monitors, elected student committees govern Eton. The 20-odd top boys who make "Pop" run the sports, carry out the school rules, enforce discipline. and get special privileges. Even young dukes and princes must "fag" (do chores) for older Eton boys. To prove that this system teaches both obedience and leadership. Etonians point proudly to products like the Duke of Wellington,* ten Prime Ministers, including Gladstone, the elder Pitt...
...would suggest that if the democracies are sincere in their intentions toward the peace of the world, they appoint a commission to study the spiritual development of the Russian people as a people and as represented by their great and spiritual literature. Proceeding on the theory that the way to shut out the darkness is to turn on the light, I believe that such an undertaking would do much to fan to flame in the hearts of the true Russian people the Christian spark which once ignited can never be permanently...
Incidentally, whom would Congress like appointed? "Name him. I'll consider him. I don't say I'll appoint him, but I'll give him every consideration. . . ." Offhand, neither legislator could name a candidate...
...Senators sat agape. Observed West Virginia's Chapman Revercomb: "This is the most unusual qualification I have ever heard advanced for the appointment of a federal judge-to appoint him because he is irksome to the Administration." Said Harold Ickes...