Word: rutlander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Superman dropped down out of the sky on a mythical European war front. While shrapnel and machine-gun bullets ricocheted harmlessly off his impervious body, Superman called a 30-minute truce on hostilities between Blitzen and Rutland, dashed off under the eyes of bemused soldiers to "expose this war as a mockery...
...whimsical news paragraph: "Superman . . . will be missing from its regular space in the Star while he completes one of his mighty and mysterious tasks in his own inimitable way." While Star gazers wondered what Superman was up to now, U. S. readers saw him snatch Blitzen's dictator, Rutland's "warmongering" commander, set them down in no-man's-land to fight it out alone, while disgusted soldiers of both armies laid down their arms, went home to their spring plowing. This week, having ended World War II to his own satisfaction, Superman was back...