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Some 32,410 persons have been brought into Italian courts since the outbreak of the war charged with contributing directly or indirectly to rising prices-in the main either by selling food above the State-fixed prices or by buying it in hoarding quantities. Eight of these defendants received prison terms, five were placed on probation, 7,578 erring shopkeepers were punished by temporary closing of their shops, 15,089 offenders were fined-and the rest were let off with warnings...
Even before the outbreak of war last September, a steady stream of circulars came to the press from Sweden's nervous Government, begging publishers not to print stories that Germany might choose to consider un-neutral and use as a pretext for aggression. Most newsmen complied by restraining themselves: persecution of the Jews in Poland and Austria was soft-pedaled, concentration camps were ignored. For at least two years no cartoon of Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, or any other Nazi bigwig has appeared in a Swedish paper...
...most recent outbreak of the traditional quarrel occurred last Spring, when a special committee, headed by Mayor Lyons, investigated the possibility of taxing the University. The committee explained that the City of Cambridge was financially embarrassed by the fact that four large educational institutions owned considerable property in the city. Such institutions are traditionally and legally exempt from taxation...
When retired General Abel Clement-Grandcourt of the French Army enlisted as a private after the outbreak of World War II, Le Journal cracked: "And Corporal Hitler has enlisted as Generalissimo." Honorably discharged a month ago because of "feeble health," irrepressible General Clement-Grandcourt, 66, turned up last week in Helsinki as a private in the Finnish Army...
Professor Hansen analyzed the war as "an economic blockade with preparation for the eventuality of a really aggressive military campaign," and pointed out that the expectations of American business for a quick expansion of exports following the outbreak of the war have not thus far been realized...