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...Charlottesville, Va., President Roosevelt slapped Benito Mussolini with his "Stab-in-the-Back" remark. Last week Franklin Roosevelt & Co. jolted Mussolini again. Mexican officials said they acted on a tip from the U. S. State Department when at a border station they pounced on the Italian Legation pouch en route from Washington to Mexico City and broke its seals in violation of the diplomatic immunity of the Italian courier...
...pouch was found $2,000,000 in U. S. currency, and by inference this branded the Italian Minister to Mexico, Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio, as a major paymaster of Axis fifth columnists...
...cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic plastics, seeds; dictionaries, language texts, magazines (TIME among them), other written records on microfilm...
...without a country is a sorry sight. An Emperor without an Empire is even sorrier, particularly if he renounced it for love, fun or other lesser considerations. Such a sight was pouch-eyed little Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, as he skipped from one asylum to another last week...
...Hagen, wife of the U. S. Naval attache in Stockholm, landed in Manhattan carefully carrying a pouch which she had been told contained the ashes of Captain Robert M. Losey (U. S. attache killed in Dombas, Norway during a Nazi air raid). Opened, the pouch was found to contain affidavits of Losey's death, nothing else...