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...Sheik's goodwill is of vital importance to Britain. Very quietly last year the Persian Gulf base of the Royal Navy was moved from Iran's famed Bushire to Bahrein and thus outside the immediate domain of Iran's King of Kings. The Sheik also allows British planes flying to India to use one of his islands as a landing base. Few years ago the Sheik permitted Standard Oil of California to set up on the island a subsidiary called Bahrein Petroleum Co., which is now booming along with some 1,000,000 barrels production annually...
...Benito Mussolini was concerned last week, his colonies of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and newly-conquered Ethiopia ceased to exist separately. With swift strokes he divided his East African domain into five autonomous provinces under the supervision of Viceroy Pietro Badoglio in the new capital, Addis Ababa. The new provinces and their capitals: Eritrea (Asmara); Amhara (Gondar); Harar (Harar), Somaliland (Mogadiscio); Galla & Sidamo (Gimma). Il Duce also promised religious freedom to Moslems of his domain, returned the Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church to its old Egyptian affiliation...
After surveying his domain last week President-elect Spaeth hurried off to start putting the University of Kansas City on the educational map. At Kansas State College at Manhattan, he extemporized on "Science and Humanism in Higher Education." At Excelsior Springs, Mo. he told the Central States Bankers Association that "Happiness has nothing to do with prosperity. . . . The Depression may-have been a blessing in disguise for some, because they found the bypaths and mountain trails to happiness...
Besmirched that bright domain...
...President: "It is not suggested that we neglect our main streams and give our whole attention to these little waters, but we must have, literally, a plan which will envisage the problem as it is presented in every farm, every pasture, every wood lot, every acre of the public domain...