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Judge Rutherford's rambling, worldwide speech was entitled "Face the Facts." Its gist: "A hideous monstrosity is rapidly moving to rule the world by dictators and to regiment the people. God, by His holy prophets, thousands of years ago, as recorded in the Bible, foretold this great menace, its cause, and what will be the result...
...most tear-jerking farewells in its 250-year history was said last week in Edinburgh by the 4th & 7th Dragoon Guards (a regiment of cavalry combining the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and the 7th Dragoon Guards or Princess Royal's). Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur...
...Mongol and Chinese deserters from forces organized by Japanese in their "puppet" states. Said Captain Carlson: "The Japanese have had no success in organizing Chinese armies to fight their battles for them. Already [General Ma] has 4,000 such converts in his ranks. While I was there a whole regiment of Manchukuoan soldiers arrived. They had murdered their ten Japanese officers and were still wearing uniforms and carrying arms supplied to them by the Japanese...
Last week the Dictator made him Honorary Commander of the Twelfth Artillery Regiment, an honor usually reserved for high visiting dignitaries...
Every man of the Twelfth Artillery Regiment and a great galaxy of German Army chiefs turned out in Berlin for the rehabilitation of Fritsch, his return to a status in which he can again become, as he was for some years, the general around whom other German generals rallied in their frequent moments of friction with the Nazi Party. The generals, especially Fritsch, have always in the past opposed bold Nazi strokes-like remilitarization of the Rhineland-which might lead to war should the Hitler bluff be called. The recall of Fritsch, however, was susceptible of another interpretation: that...