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...last month the Falange Española's newsorgan Arriba whipped out a jingo editorial announcing that Spain was no longer neutral but nonbelligerent. A few days later Generalissimo Francisco Franco officially embraced this policy, laid claim to Gibraltar and an unspecified piece of North Africa. Last week Arriba again applied the point of a pin to El Caudillo's chubby behind. Producing a brand-new term to baffle international lawyers, Arriba declared that Spain was now a "moral belligerent...
...give French soldiers something to sing, a contest was held which brought in 484 war songs. Twenty jurors winnowed the songs down to 20, which were sung for ten days to the Paris public. Last week the votes were in. Soldiers' votes counted five; civilians' one. All jingo songs were quickly eliminated: the winners had to do with love and food. First prize ($200) went to Bonjour les Demoiselles (Hello, Girls); second ($100) to La Gamelle à Gamelin (Gamelin's Bucket...
Compared with what was coming, the opening shots were almost idyllic. Beside savagely marching, stiffly saluting Nazis, Fascists, Reds, the blotchy, jerky old jingo shots from World War I looked like throw-backs to a simpler, sweeter time. Beside tough Dictators Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the sword-rattling Kaiser and autocratic Tsar looked like kindly, slightly fuddled grandfathers. Beside the Communazi conquerors of Poland and the Moscow pact-makers (shown first as outlaws, later as dictators over a combined 240 millions of lives) the Versailles Treaty-makers (Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando) looked unworldly and Utopian...
...many a Catholic off the streets and into his organization. Said he last week: "I speak their own language. When I talk to my boys I don't use any two-dollar words. I'm just one of the boys and we all get along fine. By jingo, we ... are the most patriotic people in the empire. No one is more British...
...social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...