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...Popolo d'Italia, personal newsorgan of Protector-of-Islam Benito Mussolini, editorialized: "No one ever entrusted anyone with a mandate to sow destruction and massacre in the Holy Land. . . . Whole streets are razed as punishment for acts whose perpetrators the British authorities are unable to detect and do not wish to investigate. . . . Laws which for thousands of years have guaranteed Justice to civilized mankind are openly trampled on and innocent citizens are punished for deeds for which they bear no responsibility. . . . The news from Palestine cannot but arouse a sense of horror throughout the civilized world...
...first thing that Ivan Petrovich remembered, the first thing in all his life, was the warm sleek side of a sow, the fat rich smell of her, and the squeaks of the little piglet he'd pushed away to make room for him, and the huge woman that tore him away from the sleek warm sow and hit him and said, 'You little sookin sin' (son-of-a-bitch), and something about piglets being money and babies a devil's own nuisance." The next thing Ivan remembered was his mother killing his father with...
...than in a treatise which he wrote 25 years ago, called Le Mariage, but which only lately crashed into the limelight. By last week these amateur reflections on the subject nearest to every Frenchman's heart had run to a 20th edition. The book advises young men "to sow plenty of wild oats." "not to love their wives too much when finally they marry." Other Blum tenets for successful marriage are: "Don't marry for love. . . ." Men should have sexual adventures, "otherwise married life soon will strike them as insipid and monotonous" though "it is better to choose...
...Waldo Frank returned from Europe to rediscover the U. S. He found it "a hostile waste." Manhattan's skyline failed to impress him: like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story...
Similar slogans were used in the Russia of 1917 to sow disaffection among soldiers opposing the Red Army, and daily last week Spain supplied a dossier of facts to show that it was Soviet assistance, ably coordinated by Moscow's General Emilio Kleber and the fleets of Russian bombing planes and tanks at the disposal of Madrid which were enabling the Leftists to succeed last week, just as previous sweeping Rightist drives relied enormously on Italian and German bombers and tanks. Nearly every night last week Madrid put on wild celebrations. Its Defense Junta voted to decorate its chairman...