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...wait, perhaps several weeks, to testify against Miss Jones. "I cannot wait that long," blustered Otto Prignitz. "I must obey Führer Hitler and get back to Germany at once. It is obvious I am needed there." The judge decided to make sure that the alleged thief of Patriot Prignitz's cash should not go untried. He held the robbed man in $5,000 bail as a material witness. Otto Prignitz wailed: "This means my ruin. . . . Nobody in the whole Reich will believe my story of why I was delayed...
...British liners Highland Patriot and Avila Star both reported, upon their arrival in Rio de Janeiro last week, that they had been attacked unsuccessfully by submarines near the Canary Islands on their way out from England. The Canaries, off the African Coast, belong to Spain. British warships were reported looking there for a U-boat base or supply ship...
Neither police nor Army had much difficulty in identifying the holdup men as members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the band of Eire patriot-terrorists whose program is to sever the few remaining ties with Great Britain and unite Northern Ireland with Eire. Last week 16 of those accused of the robbery were caught, and about 700,000 rounds of the missing ammunition were found in various hideouts. Eire's Army and police were scared that the I. R. A., its fire power thus reinforced, would attempt a coup d'état either in Eire...
Fortnight ago this Finnish patriot informed the League of Nations Council that "Good Neighbor" Russia was guilty of having "attacked not only frontier positions, but also open towns of Finland, sowing death and destruction." He asked the League to "take all necessary measures to check the aggression...
...North China death came to the old fox who was for many months Japan's greatest hope as a potential puppet-Marshal Wu Pei-fu, jovial poet, patriot, warlord. The Marshal died after an operation for an infected tooth. For a long time he led the Japanese to believe he would take the job they offered, but when the time came for his formal acceptance (at a party to which foreign correspondents were invited), he said to the Japanese, in effect: I shall become a puppet on the day when you little men go back to your little islands...