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...lion's paw drew its thin line across Libya, across Ethiopia, across Albania. But when Benito Mussolini tried to make his mark in Greece, the paw began picking up thorns-until by last week Il Duce was badly in need of his Androcles, Adolf Hitler. The biggest thorn, the one which hurt even more than Libya, was being pressed home by the British in Ethiopia (see map). The seizure of Ethiopia in 1936 was what made Italy an "Empire...
...letters to Ohio Congressmen. He got out a mimeographed letter, Hickory News, whose main purpose was to give bureaucracy hell. In one issue he referred to RFC 'as "Railroad's Fat Cat" and to ICC (which he also dislikes) as "Iscariot's Carnal Cat's-paw." Every time RFC turned him down on a new application (total to date: six) his mimeograph whirled faster and hotter. Last year he decided to switch to making smelter linings, hired a ceramics engineer to take charge, was sure he could get a $50,000 loan in the name...
...striped paw of Tammany, which ordinarily shuns inquiries as the devil shuns holy water, has guided a committee of Manhattan's City Council in an investigation of the local Civil Service. Designed to make Fiorello LaGuardia look bad in case he runs for mayor again, the investigation has prowled leisurely along, centring its initial snooping on the affairs of the city-owned station WNYC. Last week the probers unearthed one Alexander Leftwich Jr., who claimed he had been fired as assistant in WNYC's dramatic department for refusing to produce a show that was "red as hell." Replied...
...Codreanist Guards have watched the results of German occupation with growing anger. Horia Sima, leader of the moderate Guardists, was looked on as a traitor for accepting the Vice Premiership. Antonescu himself only joined the Guard after his coup, was hooted down as the German cat's-paw who had given Transylvania to the Hungarians. For the extremist Guards did not fancy the Nazis at close quarters. Among other things for which the Germans were blamed was a 300-400% rise in food prices...
...send to China, enemy of Axis member Japan, $100,000,000 worth of military supplies. Same day word came from Istanbul that Turkey would fight Germany if German troops entered Bulgaria. Since Turkey has not lately talked so big, the London-Washington Axis surmised that Russia's left paw was trying to hold Germany out of Bulgaria (see p. 23} while Russia's right paw beckoned Germany into a friendly treaty...