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Sirela, however, is not all peace talk. The dictionary has a column of symbols each for murder (FAREBORE - "The police are holding the victim's fiance for the murder") ; kidnapping (FAMIMIDO - "The child was lured from its home while at play"); vital statistics (FASIDOFA - "The birth of triplets was announced"). The language has other unusual features. The symbol for Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, for example, is LADOSORE. But if Herr Hitler should suddenly be displaced by, say, Nazi-jailed Communist Ernst Thalmann, Sirela would serenely call the new Reichsfuhrer LADOSORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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