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Austrian Surprise. Italy was raised definitely out of the "wop" class in 1934 when German moves to seize Austria, culminating in the Nazi assassination of plucky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, caused Benito Mussolini to hurl Italian forces up to the Austrian frontier, warn Adolf Hitler by telephone to keep hands off and assume the protectorship of Austria, which Italy has maintained ever since...
...again we are asking ourselves," summed up Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., " 'Is any treaty made with Germany more than a scrap of paper?'. . . For Britain the only possible course is to follow the same policy as she has done in the case of Italy" - i. e., hurl League sanctions against Germany...
...become the Socialist bloc of some 100 Deputies who now not only follow him in the Chamber but even ape him. When he claps his hands they all clap their hands; when he is amused they are all amused ; when Léon Blum stalks to the tribune to hurl tor rents of sarcasm and scathing innuendo at the Cabinet - any Cabinet - they are all ecstatic, then uproarious with cheers. Temperamentally a destructive critic, Socialist Blum, who has refused numerous invitations to enter the French Cabinet of the moment, is credited with having been indispensable to bringing about the fall...
...London's tough district of Camberwell last week the new parish hall of St. Giles was ready for rough & tumble political debate. Proudly the vicar, a great believer in upholding the British right of free speech, displayed his invention for cooling off hot hecklers who hurl unparliamentary epithets and at times even paving stones at speakers in St. Giles. The invention is a working fire hydrant installed on the platform with a short length of hose and gleaming brass nozzle convenient to the elbow of the speaker. All windows of the new parish hall are of non-splinterable glass...
...Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass sheet. Pellets from detonators, directed into jars of water, shatter the jars by the pressure wave...