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...Republic") stand against the Lend-Lease Act, and published a devastating editorial attack on the Tribune's attitude.This time Friend McCormick did not follow his usual policy of ignoring Times criticism. His answer was a lead editorial titled "These Jackals Grow Too Bold." Calling the Times an inept, tottering pipsqueak sheet, the Tribune turned its contempt on "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria...
...jittery Fascists suppressed too late an anti-war pastoral letter of the Bishop of Cremona which had already been read in every church of the diocese and reprinted in the Vatican's Osservatore Romano. Excerpt: "God punishes peoples by abandoning them to unworthy shepherds or to perverse or inept rulers or by permitting that even the better ones among them commit fatal errors...
Individually most of my countrymen are too honest and too inept to filch anything smaller than the moomoo's egg. Nationally Bulgaria has never shone in the badger game of territorial expansion...
...after listening for years to the after-dinner prattle of inept speakers about how wonderful it is that the U. S.Canadian frontier is unfortified, Sir Gerald said he would like to "sneak up there some time and plant just a tiny cannon on the border...
...first big military reverses. These were serious indeed. Its sea power disgraced when half its battleship force was crippled at anchor in Taranto harbor, its armies now definitely stalemated in Egypt, its Greek offensive in reverse, Italy showed herself in her true aspect-Germany's supply-starved, dangerously inept southern flank. Crippled, Italy invited even more vicious blows from the British, and the British could be expected to deliver them full measure...