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Manifestoed General Franco from Morocco: "Spain is saved! The Provinces of Andalusia, Valencia, Valladolid, Burgos, Aragon, the Canaries and the Balearic Islands, with their garrisons and civil forces, have joined enthusiastically with us. Only Madrid made an exception in sending its planes to bombard cities and towns without defense, killing women and children. . . . We will demand accounts from them as well as from those still on the fence...
...called at the White House, demanded that President Roosevelt call out a machine gun squad to bombard the Washington Hotel, where he said Mrs. Zioncheck was hiding. For the President, Representative Zioncheck left at the White House three empty beer bottles, a package of mothballs...
Spurred by this directive a minor Fascist paper, Ottobre, blazed: "If England wants war she can have it! ... Our enemy in Africa is not so much Ethiopia as England. ... It might be a good idea to bombard Malta and bring the English to their senses...
...Knew Too Much (Gaumont British) follows the formula of old Hollywood gangster pictures in its climactic scene which shows London's Wapping transformed into a shambles when the police bombard a gang of anarchists in their hideaway. Nonetheless, the picture can by no means be pigeonholed as a feeble foreign imitation of the films which many cinemaddicts found among the most satisfactory ever made in the U. S. Alfred Hitchcock's direction, in which the story is told in sharp, abbreviated sequences gathering speed steadily toward their explosive climax, makes The Man Who Knew Too Much...
President Plugge's latest addition to I. B. C. is the Yankee Network. Boston station WNAC and Providence station WEAN now bombard the British Isles with short wave advertisements, try to wean His Majesty's subjects from their favorite liver pills to others. The pill now chiefly plugged by President Plugge was announced before the holidays cheerily thus : "You must be ready for Christmas! Begin taking Bile Beans right away...