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...this time the fat was in the fire. Communist Willie Gallacher raised the "Scots Wha Hae" cry* of Scottish nationalism. M.P. Neil MacLean blamed "some confounded fool in the Admiralty" for allowing a famous shipyard to remain idle because of a mistaken idea that it had no engine shop...
Three years ago Mussolini was still popular in Italy. Today, said Matthews, he is the butt of crude jokes. More cynical than Anglo-Saxons, the Italians scorn Mussolini for the unforgivable Italian sin: making a fool of oneself. On May 9 their attitude was bored or ominous silence when Mussolini stalked to the reviewing stand on the Via Impero to celebrate the tragic farce of African Empire...
...that U.S. pursuit planes were scandalously lacking in power, arma ment, range and over-all combat efficiency when World War II began, that many models now in production are already out-of-date. Says Sascha: "It is about time we stopped bragging. ... If we continue to live in a fool's paradise of self-congratulation and far-fetched alibis, there is nothing ahead of us but brutal disillusionment." To Author de Seversky, the case for a completely separate air force is obvious...
...told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies in his fields, "that is the work of the devil. It is a work against God. . . . God never intended that farmers should butcher up land. You and other farmers have ruined a good hill farm." "Ignorant churn-headed fool!" he added, out of hearing. Old McDonald decided to spend the rest of his life reclaiming that ruined farm...
...fool of modern millionaires. . . . But she came into my life and filled it with laughter...