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Last week on Belle Isle, in a clearing near the centre of the island, overlooking a lagoon, Nancy turned the first shovelful of ground for the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only the tower's architect and trustees, a few city officials, the News editor, Nancy Brown's grandniece and grandnephew were on hand...
...cost to Germany of shattering Poland in three weeks, the communique added: "Munitions and fuel consumption of this campaign amounted to only a fraction of [German] monthly production." With a stiff, heel-clicking bow from the waist to the Nazi Party, the Army High Command observed that in Poland spade-wielding young stalwarts of the Nazi Labor Service "made the task of leadership much easier. ... In the re-establishment of streets, bridges and railways ... the Labor Service particularly proved its worth...
...significantly set no date nor hour for the return. Danzig itself was in a bad way. Its business had gradually approached a standstill-and Nazi papers accused Poland of strangling its trade. Its armed force of Nazis was estimated at 15,000, augmented last week by 1,500 spade-equipped members of the German Labor Service...
That hatred of Jews is fundamentally hatred of monotheism is not Dr. Freud's discovery, but hats off to him for calling a spade a spade. Blood, might, survival of the fittest constitute the diet of modern paganism. Pagans living on a monotheistic diet are subject to periodical violent vomiting...
Seven years ago 37-year-old Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi was the most dashing figure on the diplomatic stage and the fair-haired boy of Fascism as well. Then, in a surprise Cabinet shakeup, Dictator Benito Mussolini took away spade-bearded Dino Grandi's portfolio and made himself Foreign Minister. Some thought that Il Duce was miffed at the way Signer Grandi had conducted Italy's side of the negotiations at the Reparations Conference at Lausanne, but a more widely accepted theory was that he had violated Mussolini Commandment...