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Savants and Statesmen sometimes learn from Swine. As a result of such learning the Federal Council of the German States issued an order, last week, banning from importation into Germany all U. S. barley, except that grown in the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas...
Barley from other U. S. states is now tainted with gibberella sanbinetti, ruled the Federal Council, and based this damning decision upon the reports of German savants, who have been learning from German swine...
Learning progressed as follows. First 20,000 tons of U. S. barley, the first batch of a 500,000-ton order, was received and test samples were offered to the swine. After sniffing and tasting the U. S. barley the German swine turned up their snouts, refused...
...German savants, patient, waited several days until the hogs grew so ravenous that they ate the U. S. barley. That night German swine who had partaken of barley from states other than Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas suffered the pangs of colic...
Avala reported Stefan Raditch to have provoked Government Deputies by shouting at them: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE!" That his remark does not constitute provocation for murder, among Jugoslavs, was indicated by TIME's comment that, " 'swine' is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments...