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Oswald Garrison Villard, the second speaker, emphasised the horrors of the battlefield and declared that he was encouraged to see the youth of today protesting and organizing against war. Overseas he pointed to the vigorous action of Great Britain at Geneva, and the spectacle of fifty nations employing sanctions against an aggressor nation. Mr. Villard also found encouraging the fact of Great Britain's declaring herself for a readjustment, even of her own territories, in order to forward peace. Holding that "you can't advance righteousness by mass murder", the former editor of the Nation closed with an earnest plea...
...unbutton their spats by the two gruff commanders who fought each other to a standstill, Paraguay's General José Felix Estigarribia and Bolivia's General Enrique Peñaranda. These two extraordinary militarists, who opened the armistice with a champagne luncheon at which they toasted each other on the battlefield (TIME, July 29), got down to business last week with such vehemence that their aides predicted: "If the Governments concerned do not accept the peace they make, General Peñaranda and General Estigarribia will force it upon them...
...game rounds last week the Dictator once set some soldiers up to drinks, shook hands with an Austrian frontier guard who grinned at his country's Fascist protector, appeared to get on well with the King in a series of animated battlefield talks, and was joined by "Italy's Forgotten Hero," grinning, bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor General of Lybia. If they do hate each other as much as Rome believes, Balbo & Mussolini last week showed themselves hearty, affable masters of concealment. The Air Marshal said easily that he was not enlisting to fight Ethiopia...
...have another smack at the creeping devils," said he. "The worst of it came during the retreat. Tired and thirsty, we were overtaken by mounted tribesmen who rode among us, cutting down thousands. I escaped by crawling under a heap of dead bodies. Hardly a wounded man on the battlefield escaped mutilation...
...Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia and Denmark now refuse to sell Ethiopia arms at any price, in obvious collusion with Benito Mussolini. "I shall march to battle with my archbishop carrying the Ark of the Covenant before me!" cried Power of Trinity. "I shall lead my troops in person onto the battlefield and I do not expect to meet there Premier Mussolini...