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...Bravest resistance was in Norway, where the Nazis ordered police to attend all church services and report on any "trespasses" against the "New Order"-a result of the recent letter from the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. Most significant signer: Dr. Eyvind Berggrav, Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway, who at first publicly urged the Norwegians to cooperate with the Nazis, but has now apparently realized how fully they threaten everything Norse and Christian. Despite the police, Norwegian congregations continued to pray for exiled King Haakon and the Lutherans were reported backed in their struggle by other...
...British staged their attack on Eritrea largely with Indian troops - also mostly Moslems. These troops not only fought fiercely against the Italians; they were well received by the natives. It also looked well to the whole Middle Eastern Moslem world, which is already largely pledged to Britain although Signer Mussolini declared himself Defender of Islam in 1937. In the East the British had once more reversed their old maxim, Divide and Rule, to read: Unite and Revolt...
Three days later, in a sharply contrasting setting, the ceremony was repeated. This time the signatures were laid out in the heroic, shiny Reception Hall of Herr Hitler's Chancellery. This time it was Rumania's turn. Germans chuckled secretly to see how the Rumanian signer, General Ion Antonescu, glowered at the diplomats of Hungary-the country to which Germany had last August awarded Rumanian soil, but to which Germany was now pledging Rumanian partnership...
...certain minimum number of votes to keep its place on the ballot; if it loses its place, must then file nominating papers to get back on. Signatures on Communist nominating petitions were being investigated by the Dies Committee and American Legionnaires, turned over to local prosecutors. Many a signer told investigators he had thought he was approving a new schoolhouse or playground...
Listing the various Fascist propaganda activities in this country, Professor Salvemini's pamphlet asserts that 11 Duce's agents have gotten control of most all of the Italian social organizations in this country and that Signer Luigi Villari of the Italian embassy in Washington directs a propaganda work consisting of priests, teachers, newspapers, and radio programs...