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...pictures, one showing a train taking dead horses to the rear so that fat and other things needed for fertilizer and munitions might be obtained from them; and the other showing a train taking dead Germans to the rear for burial. On the picture showing the horses was the word 'Cadaver...
...view of the prosecution is that all persons who disseminate by word of mouth or by published writings the doctrines of what the defendants call Communism, are liable to be prosecuted for sedition. . . . The defendants before me are not prosecuted because they are Communists. . . . The prosecution suggests that Communism, as it is understood and explained by these persons and their associates, is illegal because it involves three things: first, the overthrow of the constituted Government of the country and the established forms of Government by force; second, the creation of antagonism between different classes of His Majesty's subjects...
...Count Volpi even from the members of his own commission up to the time of sailing. Correspondents, eager for an official announcement, were ingeniously informed that "Count Volpi owes it to the American Debt Commission, as an act of deference, to inform it of Italy's proposals by word of mouth instead of through the medium of the press...
...Count Volpi's name is cognate with the Italian word "volpe", which means fox, cunning person, foxy person...
Name. A motion to strike out the word "Protestant" before the name of the Episcopal Church on the title page of the Book of Prayer was, after much debate, laid on the table...