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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the horse-&-buggy propaganda technique of simple name-calling (Britain's diplomacy is "perfidious"; Churchill a "warmonger"), the British have developed a streamlined method which generally appears merely to put the clear eye of psychology on their foes. The British have so far branded Mr. Hitler nothing much worse than an interesting nut, the Germans as the victims of mass delusion. Last week the German and British methods met head on, to the former's disadvantage...
...broadcast, "British atrocities" during the Boer War some 40 years ago included mixing powdered glass in the food of Boer children penned in British prison camps. Last week His Majesty's Government cited "this shameless propaganda, which is wholly without foundation" as its reason for suddenly rebutting with much hotter and much fresher atrocity charges. Off official London presses rolled another White Paper, entitled Papers Concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany, 1938-1939. It was filled with details of torture and sadism in contemporary Nazi prison camps...
...Angeles, 17-year-old Luis Flores wormed through a hole between boards shuttering a grocery store under alteration. Safely inside, he wolfed so much food that he could not get out through the hole, had to telephone police to rescue...
Except for the fact that it was in English, this service one day last week, in Cleveland's Faith Lutheran Church, much resembled a Roman Catholic Mass. It was Martin Luther's Formula Missae et Communionis, a liturgical service which the great Reformer instituted in 1523. To most U. S. Lutherans, more averse to incense, tapers and vestments than Luther was, this Mass might have seemed abhorrent-although its language still informs the Lutheran Common Service...
Father Danforth went to Eugene Field's octogenarian widow, who repeatedly turned him down. Finally Father Danforth learned that there had been much jealousy between the families of Eugene Field and his brother Roswell, a lesser writer. By suggesting that he might move Roswell field's body to his church, Rector Danforth so moved Widow Field that at last she consented to the transfer. Poet Field's remains were placed in a handsome granite tomb in the Holy Comforter garden. Father Danforth acquired some Fieldiana, including the poet's wedding ring, put up two tablets...