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...police, had uncovered by the week's end, the following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed was a huge ungainly Mauser automatic pistol of the latest type which sprays 20 shots like a machine gun. In his pockets Kalemen also carried a Walther pistol, a hand grenade, and 150 loose cartridges...
While the Speaker of the House of Commons dozed behind the great oak table on which lies its glittering silver-gilt mace, the Masses and the Classes of Great Britain clashed in the persons of their duly elected M. P.'s last week over a 4th Century Biblical manuscript for which the Soviet Government has been paid...
...April 1813, across Lake Ontario against York (now Toronto), a village important only as the capital of Ontario. The U. S. soldiers took York after a little skirmishing and raided the Parliament House. On the table of the House lay the legislative assembly's official mace. Over the Speaker's dais was a canopy surmounted by a wooden figure of the British lion. Over the mace was what Commodore Chauncey, who had ferried Pike's men across the Lake, called a scalp. It was the Speaker's wig. The raiders took them all, as well...
...troops burnt York to the ground. The burning of York was one of the reasons the British gave for their burning of Washington a year later. Three reminders of the York episode still lay last week in a showcase of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. They were mace, lion and standard. The wig had vanished...
Last week President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress reminding it of the old mace and the new tablet and making the following suggestion: "It would be a gracious act for the U. S. to return this historic mace to Canada at the time of the unveiling of the tablet. The mace is a token of representative government established at York nearly a century and a half ago. . . . Since the agreement of 1817 the two countries have by common accord maintained no hostile armaments on either side of their boundary; and every passing year cements the peace and friendship...