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...meet his God. For otherwise I fear that his chances of happiness will be very slim. For our Saviour condemns every strife, malice, backbiting, selfishness and all manner of evil. And our late President was as free from those vices as mortal man could be. . . I know that his crown will be filled with stars . . . His every thought was for his country and people and what did America give him in return for all his self sacrifice? She turned on him and tried to rend him, even of his honor . . . through her hatred of the greatest man and President America...
Telegrams and congratulatory messages poured in upon Mussolini in such number that they were lugged to his office in bales and sacks. King Vittorio Emanuele, Queen Elena, the Queen Mother and Crown Prince Umberto were among the first to express heartfelt relief that Mussolini had been spared to defend Italy and the House of Savoy. In all the large cities of Italy imposing demonstrations of thanksgiving were participated in by thousands, who paraded through the streets singing and cheering...
...Mexico, miners prospecting the Chihuahua Mountains found, intact in a hidden cave, a group of skeletons in sitting postures, arms crossed over knees. Measured from crown to heel they sat five to six feet high; erect they would have stood ten to twelve feet. Anthropologists set off to examine these giants, hoping to clear the doubtful origin of the Chihuahua Indians, a rangy race...
...ancient Greece, the victorious athlete was adjudged a crown of olive, his praises were sung in an ode, and his triumphs were celebrated by a magnificent procession, and a riotous evening festival. In modern America, where olives do not abound except in jars, where the art of ode-making has degenerated since the time of Homer, where processions are a nuisance to traffic officers, and riotous festivals are rather stupid for lack of the means of making them genuinely riotous, it has been necessary to seek a new reward for unbeaten brawn...
...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; third, seducing from their allegiance of the armed force of the Crown...