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...Whatever clash of personalities that may have occurred ... is beside' the mark. ... In all my dealings and association with Roy W. Howard [president and editor of the World-Telegram] I have found him kindly, generous and eminently fair...
...Emil Hacha fired Slovakia's Cabinet. Its Premier, Monsignor Dr. Joseph Tiso, was shut up in a Jesuit monastery. Eventually Dr. Karol Sidor, a nationalist and Hlinka Guardsman but not a separatist, was made Premier. Apparently the plot was crushed. But just then ousted Premier Tiso smuggled a telegram out of the monastery...
...Tiso's telegram was to the week's third hero-Adolf Hitler, self-appointed foster-father of Europe's orphan minorities. Hero Hitler considered the message important enough to call an immediate conference at the chancellery with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring was ordered to cut short his vacation on the Italian Riviera. Then the familiar squeak of the tightening Nazi vise 'began to be heard in Slovakia...
...Barring periods of illness and my regular holidays, I have gone each day for 27 years to a newspaper office and made a cartoon. On April ist I am leaving the [New York] World-Telegram...
...reason for my so doing is my reluctance to support a point of view which seemed many times to be unfair, and the resultant dissatisfaction of the World-Telegram with my convictions...