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David is reserving his own best efforts to exposure of "the greatest Communist lie of all-the lie that Communism seeks peace." This week 150,000 Paix et Liberté posters will go up all over France; on them Picasso's dove, featured in the Communist Stockholm petition, has been painted bright red. Under it are the words: "La colombe qui fait bourn!" (The dove that goes boom!). From the red bird's mouth dangles the olive branch, but its feet are the treads of a tank and its wings sprout guns...
...Stockholm, Sweden's new King Gustaf VI took the royal oath, announced that his personal motto would be "Duty Above All," with Queen Louise acknowledged the cheers of his subjects. Then the King picked up his tired little grandson, Crown Prince Carl, 4, heir apparent to Sweden's throne, and carried him off to the quiet of his palace room...
Instead, the Pontecorvos bought tickets via Scandinavian Airlines to Stockholm. From Stockholm, without calling Mrs. Pontecorvo's mother, who lives in a suburb of the Swedish capital, they quickly flew on to Helsinki. During the trip, one of their little sons prattled to a fellow passenger, "We're going to Russia." When the youngster saw land below after crossing the Baltic, he asked, "Is that Russia...
Hundreds of priests, the letter declared, have been shadowed, menaced, tormented. Many have been jailed and sentenced to prison terms without trial. For refusing to sign the Communist-inspired Stockholm Peace Appeal more than 500 priests were barred from their classrooms. Seminary buildings at Wroclaw (Breslau), Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Opole (Oppeln) have been seized by the state. The religious press was being strangled by censorship. Religious instruction in more than 1,000 public schools ended when the schools were turned over to a Communist Association of Children's Friends...
Died. His Majesty King Gustaf V of the Swedes, the Goths, and the Wends, 92; at Drottningholm Palace near Stockholm. King Gustaf succeeded to the throne in 1907, held it longer than any other monarch in Sweden's history. He reigned through a gradual revolution which moved Sweden far down the socialistic Middle Way, adjusted with grace and dignity to being a king in an egalitarian democracy. Considered aloof while Crown Prince, he eventually acquired the common touch, became one of the most popular sovereigns in history. But through his genial manner glinted a regal metal that reminded...