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Corporal &Marshal. Meanwhile in Italy every newsorgan which reported the doings in London spoke, of Haile Selassie by his family name, "Signore Tafari." However, nobody much bothered to read the papers. All Italy was rapturously celebrating the return from Ethiopia of its Conqueror. His skin seemed suntanned to the toughness of leather. Moist upon it were the kisses of Benito Mussolini as II Duce embraced and smacked on both cheeks grizzled, tough, triumphant Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Viceroy of Ethiopia...
From Vatican City the official newsorgan of His Holiness Pope Pius XI recently warned the faithful in obvious reference to Adolf Hitler that the intoxicating word HONOR is now being distorted out of all meaning by "demagogues." All Nazi best mouths made it ring throughout Germany last week. Their main point, hammered home thousands of times, was that the Fatherland is menaced by cruel foes who want to deprive Germans of their "honor . . . our precious honor . . . honor, the dearest thing to every German . . . GERMAN HONOR . . . German Honor . . . German honor...
...Father Divine himself. In the interest of religious history, smallish, baldish Dr. Robert Ernest Hume, professor of the History of Religions at Union Theological Seminary, set out one Sunday last month to get the Divine record straight. The resulting interview was printed fortnight ago in The Spoken Word, Divine newsorgan. Of more interest to psychologists than theological historians, the Divine revelations rolled forth in a strange, unworldly babble. Samples...
...last week this luckless Hindu found himself inundated in Calcutta by an avalanche of suggested cures, but his offer was still open. Further suggestions may be addressed in care of Calcutta's great native newsorgan The Star Of India...
...whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik...