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Soldiers & sailors take an oath to defend the best interests of their country, come what may, but Chilean sailors, members of the second greatest fleet in South America, do not care. Early last week rumor ran through the battle fleet at Coquimbo that the Provisional Government of President Manuel Trucco (third since the flight of Dictator Ibanez), was preparing to cut the pay of all noncommissioned ratings as an economy move. Overnight mutiny flared...
...every Knight. The order has an elaborate system of initiations, demands a certain secrecy "unless the interests of State or Church demand" otherwise. Because of this, many ignorant people hate and fear the K. of C. as a subversive organization, believe implicitly in a famed, tingling "great and fake oath" which, they think, binds the Knights to battle Protestantism. In reality the order is mild and charitable: its meetings, with baseball games, dancing, parades, are no more noxious than those of any other U.S. fraternal order...
...Convict Fall under the Federal parole law which meant he could be released in four months. Still pending against him, however, is a $100,000 fine. To clear that debt without paying it, Bribee Fall must remain an extra 30 days in jail and take the pauper's oath...
...Royalist factions decided that the way to restore the monarchy was to elect Old Paul, most faithful of the Kaiser's servants, President of the Reich to succeed President Ebert. They did, but they forgot the old man's sense of duty. When he took the oath to defend the German Constitution he meant every word of it. He has not deviated. Germans mistrust their politicians but they trust Old Paul. They know he is incorruptible, ein' feste burg. That Iron Chancellor Brüning is a Hindenburg disciple is his greatest strength...
...Fascist Directorate vigorously protests against the affirmation in the recent papal encyclical according to which the Fascist oath is taken for the sake of bread, or career, or life. . . . It rejects the grave insult. . . . The Fascist Party . . . is a fighting organization on a military pattern, which made a revolution and has the imperious duty of defending it against everyone...