Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhere out in the field Haile Selas sie still controlled a sizable body of troops, but the end of his ancient kingdom was rapidly approaching. When no news from the front had reached Addis Ababa for days, Correspondent Steer of the New York Times hopped on a truck with a British Army major to deliver 1,850 home made gas masks to Crown Prince Asfa Wassan's troops at Dessye...
...should allow niggers and Moors in French uniforms to garrison Margate, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Seaford, Brighton and Worthing. . . . As a purely ethnological fact one might argue that the fair-haired, blue-eyed Berbers of Morocco, and the Riffs, who are in fact the last remnants of the Teutonic Vandal Kingdom of Northern Africa, are better white men than the little dark scum of Southern France...
...story, whose scene is Paris, is laid in the future. France, after a bitter civil war between Communists and Royalists, has become a kingdom, and the Bourbon lilies once again float over the Louvre. Walter Leroy, a young Manhattan doctor with liberal leanings, is on his way to Paris, ostensibly to pursue medical research, but actually to deliver money and a message from the U. S. Communist Party to their shattered comrades in France. On the boat with him travel M. de la Penthièvre, most potent minister of the new king; Mr. Penkethman, aged but acute sleuth connected...
Thus another nail was driven into the common fallacy of supposing that Italian Fascism exists to maintain the Italian capitalist status quo. Instead, under pressure of Sanctions and the cost of the Ethiopian campaign, Italy is becoming at ever faster tempo a kingdom in which the individual capitalist has less & less that he can boss...
After this confusing announcement Dictator Mussolini stated with precision that his Fascist Grand Council is proceeding to nationalize all Italy's large industries so as to put the kingdom on a 100% prepared-for-European-war basis...