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...force in the Chamber of Deputies, thrusting for ratification of a military pact of mutual assistance between Russia and France. In fact Socialist Blum was so much in the hair of Premier Albert Sarraut that the Paris topical weekly Aux Ecoutes cartooned the Premier as a dog covered with fleas, each flea having the face of Léon Blum (see cut, p. 19). Exclaimed Aux Ecoutes, accurately reflecting the dilemma in which French politicians found themselves last week: "Abominable though the Soviet regime is-so abominable that only the Hitler regime appears equally abominable-we think the pact must...
...diatribe, in novel form, against the race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...
...handed UNIPressman Herbert R. Ekins. Newshawk Ekins, who covered the Manchurian War in a battered Ford, was last week riding muleback with the Ethiopian army in the East. By means of courier to the wire-less station at Harar, he reported that he was full of quinine, covered with flea bites, that Ethiopian soldiers all around him were catching malaria...
...longtime flea on the British lion is the Upper Mohmand tribe, a wild, haughty, hairy group of Pathans who periodically attack the Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect their pets. Blandly incorrigible, the Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land...
...Ferris wheel is so diminutive that only a flea could enjoy...