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Changing her own story last week, Mme de Fontanges claimed that it was the burning jealousy of white-thatched Joseph Paul-Boncour, former Premier of France, that really ended her glorious idyll with Il Duce...
...raise the kudos of Red Mao among the Chinese masses that strict censorship killed the story entirely out of all newsorgans controlled by the Nanking Government, and it was forbidden even to print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week is the same Mr. Lin who in his youth had a job in the Imperial Manchu Government, is today a Red best fitted to do Emperor-homage in the way in which Chinese prefer...
...into his first battle he learned that there was more to soldiering than stopping a bullet. A Creole camp-follower in Nashville did her share in dimming Diana's image. And in his first skirimish Robert found there were too many things happening to think about glorious death. The first sight of a Confederate charge was too much for Robert and his pals; they ran like stags. And there was nothing glorious in being wounded: he thought someone had punched him in the side with a sharp stick...
...fighters on both sides are now so good that daylight bombing of important centres is considered too risky. Madrid has not been daylight-bombed for two months. In Salamanca even veteran Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand had to write, and the Rightist censors felt they had to pass, this glorious Leftist news...
...bold stroke and gave Europe a foretaste of the kind of issue on which Americans will fight. Last week Benito Mussolini did not fail to stand at Derna in respectful, silent tribute at the monument of that onetime Connecticut schoolteacher who led the Marines in their glorious onslaught upon the barbarians of Barbary, a hero whose name many U. S. schoolchildren once knew, Captain William Eaton. Under his leader ship and the Stars & Stripes, the capture of Derna was made by 10 U. S. Marines, 38 Greeks and 400 Arab mercenaries...