Word: xxvi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Hirohito of Japan, Emperor Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela XXVI is a scion of the sun. Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council-the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace...
Penning two wrathful letters, Huaraca XXVI signed them with the imperial three feathers and crown and sent them off to rap the knuckles of the guilty parties: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ecuador's President Carlos Arroyo del Rio. Then the imperial temper cooled. Huaraca XXVI was ready to lease his land to the U.S. for the war's duration for an "adequate rental...
General Hugh Samuel Johnson is a lively columnist, a good Episcopalian, a strong believer in conscription. Last week, seeking ammunition for a pro-conscription broadside, Columnist Johnson resorted to Holy Writ. Titling a column "Biblical Draft," he cited Scripture to his purpose: Numbers XXVI, 1-2, for registration of the whole adult population and classification as to its availability for military service; Numbers XXXI, 3-4, for assignment of quotas, and Deuteronomy XX, 5-9, for a likely list of exemptions from active service...