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...told of Green Shirt ruffians ranging through the ghetto of Bucharest, firing shops and synagogues, shooting Jews and Christians who refused to join the fun, beating some senseless and setting matches to their gasoline-soaked bodies. He told of one band of Jews herded into a slaughterhouse, forced to kneel at the chopping blocks where their throats were cut in a grisly parody of kosher butchering. From a Jew, who miraculously escaped death by playing possum, he heard of a mass assassination of 160 Jews at the prison of Jihlava...
Said bossy Julie to Marshall Field III, president of the U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children, who sponsored the evacuees: "Mister, kneel kindly. I've a kiss for you and the fancy lights of the New World...
Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson of Michigan is a nice old man. Whether doddery, 81-year-old Mr. Dickinson deserves more resounding praise is debatable. As Governor, using the kneel & pray technique, Mr. Dickinson has campaigned against drinking, tobacco, fallen women. Fortnight ago, the Governor called Lansing correspondents to his desk, read what he regards as a divinely guided statement: "I would be uneasy if not active and busy somewhere. Because of these reasons and because unusual demands have been made that I be a candidate for Governor, I am saying that if the electors think...
...those who died because of it were added to that list of Irish martyrs -Pat Pearse, Robert Emmet, Terence MacSwiney-which has been growing ever longer since the day in 1603 when proud Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, last of the great Irish princes, was forced to kneel humbly before King James...
Nevertheless, the Ribbentrop-Pius talk was unprecedentedly long - 65 minutes. Known results of the meeting: Herr Ribbentrop was : 1) not required to kneel and kiss the Papal ring; 2) did not give the Nazi salute to the Pope as he once did to Britain's George VI; 3) greeted His Holiness with "three profound bows." Most extraordinary surmise as to the text of Pope and Minister's secret conversation came from Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times. He thought the German had proposed an anti-Bolshevik crusade...