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However divided on politics, all Hollanders unite in agreeing that the House of Orange is the incarnation of Dutch virtue and Queen Wilhelmina the finest sovereign any nation ever had. Last week planes were forbidden to fly over Soestdijk Palace and cars and bicycles passed it slowly and quietly, for there Crown Princess Juliana was waiting for her second baby. At 7 one morning 51 guns announced the birth of a second daughter. The nation was sorry that it was not a male heir, but healthy Princess Juliana has said that she is going to have a dozen children...
Most natives are total abstainers. For Moslems drinking is forbidden by edicts of the Prophet, and while it is not specifically banned for Hindus, it is regarded as immoral, disrespectful to age and to women. Supported by most of the population, the Indian National Congress Party had no difficulty last year in initiating prohibition experimentally in districts of four provinces of British India, especially after Mahatma Gandhi declared that British India could be dry in three years, that prohibition would be one of the Congress' first proofs of its ability to rule India. On moral grounds wets...
...whose motto is "harder than a diamond, yet softer than a flower," went into action. At the end of it more than 40 had been injured by bullets, blows or bludgeons, a 10 p. m. curfew was clapped on Bombay for 14 days, and assemblies of more than five forbidden. To popularize prohibition, authorities put on showings of Ten Nights in a Barroom, charging 2? to 4? admissions...
Catholic Action, for its 1,000,000 male and female members, agreed to remove its lay directors, let local bishops and priests run the organization. Forbidden henceforth is the wearing of Catholic Action buttons on Fascist uniforms. About the only important point which Catholic Action won over Farinacci's objections: Fascist party members, unbuttoned, may still belong...
With religious and racial persecutions 10? a dozen in Europe, many people forget that in Mexico there has long been, if not a persecution, a very cramping restriction of Roman Catholics. Priests are forbidden by law to wear clerical garb outside their houses and their churches, and the cassock has not been seen in the streets of most Mexican states for many years. An eye opener for U. S. adepts of "selective indignation"* was a photograph circulated last week. It showed a group of Mexican and U. S. prelates, gathered in the patio of the home of Mexico...