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...beg you to correct your statement to the effect that I have taken an active stand "against Mussolini and Italy." Against Mussolini, yes. Against Italy, no. Mussolini is not Italy. Whoever during these last twenty years has had a share in the thankless task of fighting Mussolini while American bankers, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, university presidents, college professors, journalists and lecturers were praising him to the skies, did not stand against Italy but revindicated the rights and the honor of the Italian people against Mussolini and his brainless admirers...
Those Who Stay and Beg. In Loyang we went to call on Bishop Thomas Megan of Eldora, Iowa, a greathearted Irish padre. When we came out of his relief dispensary, which is supported by American funds, the refugees tried to mob us. Men fell on their knees, surrounded us, folding hands in supplication...
Right now the four restaurants are barely scraping along on what they are able to beg, borrow, or steal. Only getting 50 or 60 per cent of what they were using, these places have tried to restrict the sale of coffee in various ways, including stopping sale of "coffee to go" and limiting people to one cup of coffee per meal. Hazen's, formerly using 100 pounds a week, now only gets 40-odd. The late-at-night business had been hit especially hard by this shortage, the manager said...
...their parents so they would not follow them as they went in search of food. One mother with a baby and two older children, tired from the long search for food, sat down to rest under the tree. She sent the two older children to the village ahead to beg a little food. When they returned the mother had died of starvation and the baby was still trying to nurse at her breast. These are just a few authentic reports which come to us. Children are being sold, I mean larger ones, both boys and girls, for less than...
...consisting of 1½% notes of 1946 and 2% bonds of 1952 had just been subscribed for a total of $4,100,000,000-a squeak-through compared to the 50% (and greater) over-subscriptions of recent years. But to save even this much face the Treasury had to beg banks to increase their purchases, for the unsolicited subscriptions fell considerably short of the necessary total (about $1,000,000,000 short, according to many bankers' beliefs...