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Horia Sima, leader of Rumania's Nazis-tic Iron Guard, last week made a public speech accusing Hungarians of butchering 447 Rumanians in North Transylvania, of cutting out tongues, burning, torturing. The limit, said Guardsman Sima, had been reached...
...their gloomy minds, they recalled the black year of 1936 when Alf Landon had had an early lead in polls. In 1928, the whole U. S. turned out to see Al Smith roll by, with cigar, brown derby, wisecracks, East S:dese ard all. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract crowds...
...Killed on the Western Front was another, more distant relative of the royal family, Grenadier Guardsman...
Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, son of Viscount Boyne and nephew of the Earl of Harewood (brother-in-law of George VI). His ancestor Sir Frederick Hamilton had distinguished himself fighting Germans under Sweden's great King Gustavus Adolphus. Guardsman Hamilton-Russell's son Gustavus Michael George, aged 8 and the final survivor of his family, is now heir to Lord Boyne...
Lieut, the Hon. Evelyn Boscawen. heir to Viscount Falmouth and not long out of Cambridge, died as a Coldstream Guardsman in Flanders. Lieut. Sir Marmaduke Charles Henry Joseph Casimir Blenner-hasset was killed while serving as a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, leaving a nine-day-old successor to his baronetcy...