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...publishers Mrs. Roosevelt will read and select all manuscripts, has already written the editorial for the first issue. She will have an office in the Macfadden Building but is not expected to be there regularly. Most of her editorial work will be done from the Executive Mansion at Albany or???if her husband should be elected President?from the White House...
...Department also has a "moral obligation" to the Gold Star Mothers of future wars, and I am sure that the mothers whose sons were killed or???worse?maimed, in the World War, would be the first to say: "Publish Mr. Putnam's book, or any other book that will help to outlaw wars...
...Priests are automatically deprived of all civil rights?that is to say, they are not allowed to possess ration cards nor are they allotted to any housing space. They have to shift for themselves or???as usually happens?they are fed and housed by their congregations. It has to be said that the majority of priests are well cared for. At the slightest sign of counter-revolutionary activity they are at once shot, imprisoned or banished to Siberia...
...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or???as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...
...invented a Moses of Mousedom, leading his people to a promised land and handing down commandments nibbled upon a pebble. Or an Alexander, weeping mousily when there were no more ranches to conquer. Or some evidence that it had rained mice, or that the rodents were from Mars, or???since a mouse running from beneath a woman's skirt used to be regarded as a symbol of unchastity?that the mouse army was a portentous sign of the times...