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...Arabs. He has been a fanatical anti-Zionist ever since the British appointed him as Mufti in 1921. In 1937, after a murder, he was wafted out of Palestine, where a warrant still exists for his arrest. During the war, he was accused of trafficking with Hitler and Mussolini, of fomenting the Iraq revolt of 1941, and of urging on Germany a systematic policy of exterminating Jews. Last year he entered France from Switzerland, and has been living luxuriously at a villa 13 miles from Paris under mild police surveillance which left his movements unhampered...
Died. Gina Ruberti Mussolini, 29, pretty brunette widow of the Duce's second son, Bruno; by drowning (when a small boat sank during a midnight boating party with British soldiers); in Lake Como...
...helped suppress freedom of speech. As late as 1942 he had endorsed aggressive war. The clincher was an erstwhile bestseller titled Face of the Earth, which Hatoyama had written in 1938, after a tour of Europe. Excerpts: "The Japanese people . . . must not betray Hitler's faith in them." "Mussolini is one of the great heroes of his generation...
This week Hatoyama tried to correct the impression his book had made. "I said," he told reporters, "that Hitler's eye was piercing and that Mussolini was diligent...
...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...