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...tourist-delighting quaintness and scenery, 14,500 inhabitants who love to give away honorary citizenship to rich Americans. Tradition claims it was founded by a hermit stonecutter named Marinus who gathered about him Christian slaves-the poor and oppressed. Cesare Borgia briefly conquered it in 1503, Cardinal Alberoni overran it for a year in 1739, but always, through centuries of war and political strife, with Italian acquiescence, it maintained its borders, governed itself wisely and well...
...that Stalin signed the Moscow Pact with Oriental cunning. Others who read this book after the Nazi knockout of France may believe instead that the Red Army has become the Reichswehr's vast awkward squad, Russia itself a Nazi economic dependency. But last week, as the Red Army overran Bucovina and Bessarabia while Hitler gazed benevolently in other directions, it looked as if Prophet Wolfe might be right again, at least for a little while...
...somewhat resembles an intelligent football player, he makes no secret of the fact that he considers himself the personal representative of Göring in Sweden. More than once he has stood for an hour straight-arming before the Stockholm statue of the great Gustavus Adolf us (who overran Germany in 1630-32) while comrades paraded behind him. Once he was asked at a public meeting what he would do if Germany invaded. "I will not be provoked," said Sergeant Lindholm...
Fortnight ago came the break. In a front-page column in the Washington Post, Roosevelt-Biographer Ernest K. Lindley reported that in a conversation with a Democratic elder, Mr. Roosevelt said: 1) he would not run for Term III unless the Germans overran England; 2) Secretary of State Cordell Hull was his candidate, was safe, could be elected; 3) Jim Farley was unacceptable as a Vice-Presidential nominee because some people might think the Democrats "were using Cordell Hull as a stalking horse for the Pope" (TIME, March...
...Russians, a Finnish woman named Lotta Svärd went to war along with her husband, and, after he was killed, stayed with the Army, cooking for the soldiers and nursing the wounded. What made Lotta a two-time Molly Pitcher was the fact that in 1808, when Russia overran Finland, she volunteered again and served throughout...