Word: scipio
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...Goebbels ordered the Boersen-Zeitung to print the suggestion that the hero of Tobruk, after the fashion of ancient Rome's great Scipio, be dubbed "Rommel Africanus." Since the eleventh edition of Rommel's Infantry Attacks had all but disappeared from German bookshops, Dr. Goebbels commanded that Germany's paper-saving regulations be relaxed to permit a twelfth edition. Goebbels' biggest scoop was a German soldier-correspondent's interview with Rommel six hours after he had entered Tobruk. As if to answer Italian newspapers, which had crowed that the victory belonged to "Italian and German...
...Scipio Africanus (Italian) is as magnificent a bit of Fascismo as has come out of Italy since Marcus Cato rose to tell the Roman Senate: "Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be liquidated). It is also as spectacular a show as the movies have seen since the Italian Quo Vadis? first made the U. S. spectacle-conscious...
...Roman ancestors of present-day Fascists fought three full-length wars with a first-class Semitic power-Carthage. For 17 years Semitic Generalissimo Hannibal made Italy unsafe for Italians; Scipio, played by Cinemactor Annibale (Hannibal) Ninchi, finally defeated him at Zama, near Carthage. Scipio Africanus reviews this ancient history with Latin enthusiasm, Roman corpses, blazing villas, trumpeting war elephants, clanking swords. Up-to-the-minute double meanings for ardent Fascists: 1) the Semite is still public enemy No. 1; 2) conquered Carthage stood in what is now Fascist-coveted French Tunis...
Signal Officer: Scipio Africanus, who without benefit of radio or cable won victories overseas for Rome...
...there. So did five college presidents, one U. S. Congressman, two U. S. Ministers to Liberia. Many of Lincoln's 300-odd students sing in the glee club, find jobs as waiters at Atlantic City in the summer. Among them are such well-named persons as Benjamin Franklin Coleman, Scipio Solomon Johnson, John Milton Smith, Woodrow Wilson Smithey, James Madison Walden...