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Patriotic Frenchmen are always vexed to remember that good Fascists insist on calling the hind side of Mont Blanc Monte Mussolini. Last week Il Duce entered geography again. As part of a really praiseworthy Fascist irrigation scheme 25,000 acres of Sardinian swamp land have been drained, restored to cultivation, settled with 2,000 immigrants from the mainland. Last week this new land was formally incorporated as a comune (township) invested by gracious permission of II Duce with the imposing title of Comune di Mussolinia di Sardegna...
...specimens. At an auction sale in a French town, he bought the collection of Dr. Oberthur, French scientist, discovered in it insects brought to Europe in 1829 by English explorers looking for a northwest passage to India. Three other of his valuable butterflies, now extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find specimens for him. Some of the rarest are worth $20,000 a piece. Most of these are drab, colorless. The brilliant butterflies are common...
...Like swamp fire, revolutionary feeling snaked underground from Bolivia and Peru (see col. 3) last week, to break out in three different places in Latin America...
Hunter Siemel, the man who kills jaguars with a bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor. These monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with...
...world's wildest frontiers and its direction straightforward and vital in the Russian manner, this ought to be important. It fails because, as usual, the makers have loaded on a dismal weight of propaganda. Hero is Kevebel Kima, a long haired, slant-eyed native of that swamp- land past the Siberian frontiers called Taiga. The theme is the conflict between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right of the neediest. Less stylized and re- lieved of its propaganda content...