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...Storm Troops are proudly carrying on without uniforms and remain loyal to the Führer," hopefully declared the Chancellor's personal newsorgan. "Even in civilian clothes our splendid Storm Troopers can easily be recognized!" With time to mull over the announcement that Herr Lutze was planning to slash their numbers from about 2,500,000 to an unarmed "political army" of some 800,000, they had the small satisfaction last week of hearing that their rivals of the Stahlhelm were being taken out of their uniforms too and sent off on a vacation until August...
...bitter wind shrilled over the precipitous heather-covered mountains of the Isle of Mull last week. A few black, bleary-eyed sheep huddled in the lee of ancient deserted cottages. But from the flagstaff of Duart Castle the Maclean banner whipped boldly, and down in the great hall the pipes were screaming "The Chief's Salute." Hundreds of Macleans from all over the world were there to drink their chieftain's health, to eat his mutton and haggis. The Maclean of Clan Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean of Dowart and Morvaren, was celebrating his 50th year as chieftain...
Jacobites to the end, the Macleans of Duart were dispossessed from the Isle of Mull in 1691. Eighty years ago Sir Fitzroy, then a beardless youngster, sailed out from the mainland on a yachting cruise with his father. They passed Mull. On a headland jutting into the water were a few tumbled walls-all that remained of his ancestors' castle. Later young Fitzroy joined the army, got a commission from the Duke of Wellington, fought the Russians at Sebastopol. He served in Canada for three years, and as a good Maclean he was always careful with his money...
Twenty-two years ago, already an old man, he returned to Mull to fulfill his dream. Masons and workmen went to work and soon the towers of Duart Castle were standing again. Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking. But the buckles on his pumps were no brighter than his blue eyes. In addition to the hardy souls who journeyed to Duart Castle to make merry amid ancestral scenes, Macleans in Canada, India and the U. S. were drinking Sir Fitzroy 's health...
...Secretary Tugwell, by wise, bespectacled Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, new economic adviser to the Secretary and by Frederick Lee, onetime lobbyist for the major farm organizations. At the Capitol, Representative Jones of Texas whisked it into his Committee on Agriculture, summoned his colleagues, slammed the door and settled down to mull over its complexities...