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...Mexico City this question was put last week by urbane, sardonic El Excelsior, newsorgan of Mexico's ruling class. "Here is a splendid opportunity for our infant film industry," declared El Excelsior, tongue in cheek. "A splendid opportunity also to effect that international reciprocity between Mexico and the U. S. that one hears so much about! What spectacle could be more imposing, more instructive or more edifying than a multitude of 7,000 blond men (supercivilized, of course) lynching an unhappy 19-year-old youth to whom had been attributed an ugly crime, the proofs of which were lacking...
...asked whether President Roosevelt, by insisting that Russia reaffirm the religious rights of foreigners in the Soviet Union, had paved the way for a rapprochement be tween Moscow and the Vatican. "About that," he twinkled, "I do not want to make propaganda." With asperity in Vatican City the Papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano last week declared that Comrade Litvinoff's pledges to President Roosevelt on the freedom of religious practice in U. S. S. R. are not only worthless but "clearly mean ingless...
...TIME, a newsorgan, is neither gentleman nor bourgeois nor proletarian. But nothing could better please a TIME editor than to see Texas as Publisher Carter can show...
Though this program promised little, Premier Sarraut received from the entire French Press what was called a "fraternal welcome"-fraternal because he and his brother Maurice are among the leading publishers of France, own the famed Depeche de Toulouse, most potent French provincial newsorgan. Approvingly the Paris Press recalled that at the London Economic Conference, Delegate-Gourmet Albert Sarraut delivered a ringing speech in which he cried, "The world in this time of Depression is suffering from grave underconsumption of wine. . . . Ah wine: the gift from heaven of the blood of life which has been vouchsafed us in this vale...
...medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They found one accused of murdering her child-but suddenly Nuremberg's Nazi municipal government intervened. There had been too many letters from British tourists, the Storm Troopers were warned...