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Chicago's high-spirited Tribune, having announced that it will no longer maintain a correspondent in Rome to "take government handouts" (TIME, June 24), last week obtained from Correspondent Will Barber in Djibouti, French Somaliland, a lurid account of what goes on in neighboring Italian Eritrea as the Dictator's forces get ready to fight after the summer rains...
...rambling remarks, delivered in a clear voice with a trace of Southern accent, was that the Day of Armageddon is at hand. "My language." said the Judge, "is wholly inadequate to describe that battle. But quotations will give you an idea." Thereupon he produced from Scripture a series of lurid pictures of plagues, storms, flashings of fire, quenchings of sun, moon and stars, and a rain of blocks of ice. "That," concluded Judge Rutherford, "will convince them that Jehovah is doing the fighting...
...fairly complete description of each of the countries on the globe with especial emphasis on the recent changes in boundary and forms of government. A short history is included and the usual economic data with a precis of the constitution of each. The whole is illustrated with rather lurid pictures of no great importance but which help to make the page more readable. Working on the theory that present arrangements cannot be understood without showing the historical antecedents the editors have prefaced the main body of maps with about thirty pages showing the development of the modern political units since...
...ignorance of Mexican affairs. Even U. S. Catholics, if they are candid, will admit that ecclesiastical control in Mexico has not been an unmixed blessing. The disestablishment of a church is a painful process in any country but is that any reason for presenting only the most lurid details, without any attempt at historical analysis? Give the Revolutionary Government of Mexico...
...Empire. Unless Japan can stop the onward rush of the Russian Bear, she is faced with the grim probability of starvation and defeat. While it is possible to see the justification of Japan's fear of Russian expansion, it is a little too much when Mr. Rea paints a lurid picture of the nations of the world egging on the Soviet Union while poor little Japan is fighting a life and death struggle. Even more incredible is the assertion that Japan is the only force which can prevent the World Revolution...