Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about Ethiopia. A significant sign of this is the sort of picture post cards they send each other. Today no cards in Italy are selling quite so fast as the joyous new series called "For you, Little Blackface!" These buoyant cards show a little white Italian boy in Fascist uniform kissing and being kissed by an Ethiopian pickaninny. The empire-building Italian moppet then merrily delouses his Ethiopian charge with a hose, instructs him, inculcates Fascist discipline, helps him get started with an Italian plow and finally starts the "fun-after-work" called by Fascists Dopolavoro...
...received disquieting news that in the Mediterranean Fascist Flea Boats were running circles around Britain's most potent dreadnoughts, obviously able to dash in for quick, close, suicidal work with torpedoes had Il Duce so ordered. Last week His Majesty, arriving at Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered cocked hat of the Admiral of the Fleet into...
Harry Thompson bought himself a Navy yeoman's uniform, went to work. Posing as a visitor from another crew, he would board warships at the San Pedro and San Diego bases. With the disarming air of an ambitious country boy he would then ask eager questions about gunnery data, technical innovations, maneuvers. He frequently managed to slip off by himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models. He made friends easily, often took gunners and technicians out on parties. What he learned found its way to Toshio Miyazaki, who returned regular payments from his large account...
...roommate. One day Thompson fondly confided his whole story to the boy. Patriotic Willard Turntine thereupon unburdened himself to Navy Intelligence officers, fled back to Texas. The officers trailed Thompson to many a meeting with Miyazaki, arrested him four months ago on a charge of masquerading in Navy uniform. Meantime Toshio Miyazaki had left the country...
...biggest groups in Germany, according to Spivak. These are the pro-Hohenzollerns and the Communists. The underground Communists (about 50,000) are superbly organized. From Paris Spivak made an appointment to meet a high Communist in a Hamburg night club. The man showed up in his uniform as a Nazi official. Said he: ''The Reichswehr is far more shrewd than the Nazi Party. The General Staff is composed of scholars who know not only the military situation but the political and economic as well. . . . Before Hitler is through he will have helped considerably to wreck the already weak...