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...sumptuous Villa Torlonia, Rome, Donna Rachele Mussolini and their small sons, Bruno and Vittorio, spend the winter at an apartment in Milan, and the summer at a little villa near Forli in the Umbrian mountains. Edda Mussolini, their daughter, attends boarding school in Florence. Thus the Mussolinis dwell apart, except on holidays such as Christmas...
...Minister Painlevé said: "The Mass Mobilization Bill only insures daily collaboration between the economic and military defenders of France. . . . No effort should be spared to avoid the cataclysm which, the next time, would wipe out entire populations, without distinction to age or sex. Any statesman who does not dwell on these thoughts is not worthy of public trust...
Strapping cannibals who communicate with each other by "modulated grunts" were reported to dwell on the Island of Tiburon, off the coast of Sonora, Mexico, by the Director of Education, Sonora, last week. Director F. F. Dworak declared that these cannibals, the Seris Indians, have thus far made away with "most of the investigators" who have visited their isle. "The Seris," he continued, "are a people of enormous stature with particularly long legs. They go about unclothed, and prefer their meat or fish either raw or in a partially decomposed condition. We shall attempt to educate the Seris...
...Free and Independent Republic of Liberia, constituted in 1847 on the West coast of Africa, especially to make provision for freed U. S. slaves. The President of Liberia is of American descent. The Constitution, Legislation, Executive and Judicature of Liberia almost duplicate the U. S. pattern. Two million Negroes dwell there upon an area as large as Pennsylvania...
Britons viewed with disquiet, last week, the announcement that 43,029 more British workers were unemployed than the 1,516,171 who were jobless during the week previous. (Coal or other strikers are not included in these figures.) Southern Irishmen dwell under a government picturesquely and adroitly named The Irish Free State. They are vexed because it "is not Irish, is not free and is not a state."* They vent their spleen by constantly bedeviling the British Government. Last week the British mint refused to quote prices for minting a new series of Irish Free State coins from which...