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...Italian Army is regarded by military men the world over with emotion ranging from contempt to hilarity-almost nowhere with admiration. But this was the first real test. Ethiopia, a war against men whose only armor was the loin cloth, was no test. Neither was the Italian picnic in southern France. No one knows how enthusiastically the campaign in Egypt has been pursued. But this was war, and all the world was watching. Considering the terrain, the weather, and the vigor of the brave Hellenes, the Italians were doing all right...
Deliberately misleading reporting there undoubtedly was in a few newspapers. But in the press as a whole no significant news fact-whichever side it helped or hindered -was suppressed, distorted or made up out of the whole cloth. In the test of 1940 the U. S. press had proved that although still humanly imperfect, it was a civilized and democratic institution...
...denial of some news which had rated front-page banners in practically every paper in the U. S. the week before. The great "invasion attempt"-in which there were supposed to have been anywhere from 40,000 to 200,000 German casualties -had been made up out of whole cloth...
Your report on "Babes in the Sea" in the Sept. 30 issue strikes me as a considerable departure from your usual editorial objectivity. Apparently you have accepted the British story whole cloth, without any examination of the details...
Included in the display are volumes once in the libraries of European royal families, books in various different language scripts, and examples of Bodoni's various effects with illustrations and decorations. One volume is printed on silk cloth...