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...scant 14 years ago, the Kingdom of Italy was as confused, irresolute and radical-ridden as are France and Spain today. The years have dignified and tempered Benito Mussolini, and he has dignified and tempered the Italian people. As empires crumble other empires rise, and buoyant empire-builders invariably have clear consciences. Italians are not ashamed but proud and happy about Ethiopia. A significant sign of this is the sort of picture post cards they send each other. Today no cards in Italy are selling quite so fast as the joyous new series called "For you, Little Blackface!" These buoyant...
Villain of the piece is Jante, the small town in Denmark where Espen grew up, and from whose iron influence on his poverty-ridden, unhappy childhood he never fully recovered. Even when he left home, shipped as a sailor to the U. S., worked as a lumberjack in Canada, married and settled in Norway, he found Jante everywhere, its belittling, ugly standards the almost universal law of life. Because he hated and feared Jante, suddenly saw the bully who took his girl as the personification of all Jante stood for, Espen killed him and felt little remorse...
...Everybody said Mahmoud would not stay the course, but by judicious handling I made him stay." This statement was made last week not by Jockey Charles Smirke, who had just ridden Mahmoud to victory in the Derby at Epsom Downs, England, but by the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, Fatima: Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems...
Because George Lewis Steer, who served the London Times and the New York Times as their Addis Ababa correspondent, had ridden with a truckload of gas masks to the Ethiopian front and because he had sent out many a dispatch that grated on Italian ears, he was ignominiously booted out of Ethiopia fortnight ago. Because the reports of New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, who was attached to Badoglio's army, sounded sweet to Italian censors and because he had exhibited great bravery at the battle of Azbi last November, Marshal Badoglio last week pinned to his breast...
JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN-Martin Delaney-Vanguard ($2.50). Case study of poverty-ridden Greenwich Villagers in the pre-New Deal era, set down by a sensitive young Irishman who strives to maintain his integrity while Catholicism, Communism and a self-centred blonde struggle for his soul...