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...want you to remember that you are first and foremost representatives of the State. You ought to transmit to the State all information that may be useful to it. You do not do this enough! There has been a certain laxness incompatible with present exigencies. It is the fate of the regime and the life of the country that are now at stake...
...over the terrific heat in Washington [TIME, July 29]. After reading daily in newspapers that our legislators are lying exhausted in their air-cooled chambers and can do nothing but drink lemonade and fan themselves, it is refreshing to those of us who are spared from such a terrible fate to know that TIME is not overcome by the heat. If our steaming Representatives would cease their Intellectual twaddle and their blowing off of hot air, they could finish their business and give us all a vacation...
Atrocities, slaves, fate. Since the rest of the warm-hearted world will not easily swallow such ice-hearted candor, Il Duce's Son-in-Law Count Ciano worked happily away in his Ministry of Propaganda last week. His best Ethiopian atrocity: "On the night of May 31 wild Ethiopian tribesmen captured 4,000 head of cattle from an outpost in Italian Eritrea and carried off as slaves a number of men and women. The tribesmen mutilated several children who were abandoned bleeding on desert sands...
...Grischa, found Author Zweig's short stories cut in the same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief resistance, but more often submitted hopelessly to fate. Most of Author Zweig's tales ring true, contain sharp characterizations that make up for his occasional sentimental philosophizing...
...unexciting Canadian with many of Herbert Hoover's virtues is Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who, knowing that a fate like the U. S. ex-President's probably awaits him at Canada's next general election this year, has excitedly improvised a species of New Deal (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week in the Province of New Brunswick came a preliminary test. If the Conservative Premier's New Deal was catching on with Canada's masses, Mr. Bennett could hope that when New Brunswick elected its provincial legislature Conservative New Brunswick Premier Leonard Percy de Wolfe...