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...these arguments advanced in behalf of the accused could stand it would mean that a private could berate his captain, a major could lampoon his colonel, with the result that discipline would vanish and the Army become a mob...
...Many indefensible features mar their present movement. A very wicket thing is the willingness of the student leaders to excite mob feeling, and exhort them to violence, rather than lead them in the exercise of reason...
...resounding fitfully but alarmingly through Paris, as Communists staged a very poor imitation of "a general 24-hour strike." A few taxi drivers were whacked and mauled for not striking, and many more heeded the warning and "struck." In the outlying factory districts there was a bit of sharp mob-fighting for a time. But in general the gendarmes kent the situation well in hand: some 50 Paris Communists were arrested...
...worried, say the newspapers. A German moving picture, produced as propaganda for the German "naked culture" movement is about to be exhibited in England; and one of the most interesting parts of the film depicts Mr. Lloyd-George, soberly clad in tweed golfing togs, surrounded by an indecorus mob of nude athletes of both sexes. Just how he was inveigled into this pose is not stated. However, the famous statesman doesn't want constituents to connect him with unconventionality, and is doing his best to prevent the film from being shown in England...
Shortly after the event Fascist-censored cables and telegrams declared that a hot-headed Freemason, Giovanni Benciolini had wantonly shot and killed Cavaliere Luperini, a Fascist leader, and had then been set upon by an infuriated Fascist mob, which not only beat him to death but wreaked awful vengeance upon all Freemasons who could be found...