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...Never More. The Fascist Party's Secretary General Carlo Scorza promptly rejected this message. But he could not count on its rejection by the Italian people, he had to exhort them to spurn it. He tried to rally them, not to the bound sticks of Fascist heraldry, but to "the symbols of their millenary and everlasting glory ... the Catholic faith and the monarchy of Savoy." He tried to rouse them with a prediction-which was an admission of impending defeat in Sicily: "On the sacred soil of our adored fatherland," cried he, "we shall find more favorable conditions...
...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
...takes a vacation in Florida, where she is wooed by a valve manufacturer, a playboy and a fatuous young leftist-one of those self-righteous kibitzers who continually feels obliged to tell other people exactly what is wrong with them and with society. He wins the girl, only to spurn her in order to become a sort of wandering heart-of-the-world...
...Century, means to carry on, too. "This is not our war," said he, "it is not a war for saving civilization, but is itself the destruction of civilization." Quakers remained men of peace at any price. Some Mennonites perhaps did not yet know a war was going on: they spurn newspapers, magazines, radios...
Militant democratic sympathy brands immediately as heresy and concessions to the ogre Hitler. Accordingly it rejects as insulting the vaguest mention of a peace concluded over the body of prostrate Poland. And-together with the isolationists-it emphatically demands that President Roosevelt spurn the role of peace mediator...