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While preserving its democratic customs, in 1932 San Marino gave its Fascist Party a majority of seats in the Grand Council (unicameral legislature). Last week another election gave the Fascists every one of the Council's 60 seats. Future business on the Council's agenda for October 1 will be to elect two Captains Regent for six-month terms. Both wear special uniforms and sit side by side on a double throne to denote equal authority...
Shortly before San Marino's 13,948 inhabitants elected a 100% Fascist Council, their Government had made a democratic gesture. The Republic issued a three-lire and a five-lire Abraham Lincoln postage stamp. Below democratic "Honest Abe's" profile was reproduced a part of a letter he sent to San Marino in 1861: "Although your dominion is small your state is nevertheless one of the most honored in all history." President Lincoln thereafter became Honorary Citizen No. 1 of San Marino...
...title to the three ships. Already operating 47 cargo ships, the Commission planned to use the new ones as the nucleus of a "luxury" passenger and commercial line to the east coast of South America, to vie with the eager efforts of Nazi and Fascist shipping to corner trade in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Awaiting bids this week on the task of refurbishing the vessels with deck swimming pools, gay Lido decks, more spacious cabins and airconditioning, the Commission was even considering the ingratiating idea of changing the names of the ships to those of the three east coast countries...
Jersey City Catholics against allying themselves with Boss Frank Hague, a Roman Catholic, on the grounds that Hague tactics may be used elsewhere against Catholics (a warning, however, not heeded by numerous Jersey City priests and Catholic War veterans). Said Zions Herald (Methodist) : "Jersey City has become essentially a Fascist cell. . . . The danger is that the Roman Catholic Church . . . shall through the misguided zeal or intolerance of some of its followers be subjected to the suspicion that in the 20th Century it endorses coercion over the minds...
...separation of Church & State. 2) Maintain the fact of the sovereignty of God over the State. 3) Watch lest the churches become too rich. 4) Develop the conference idea among religious citizens. 5) "Religious people, before all others, should be aware that the best guard against Nazi, Communist and Fascist propaganda is to produce an American social order better than these can promise...