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That this was no private opinion of fire-eating Blackshirt, but the line all of Italy's controlled press was ordered to take, was made clear when the sober Popolo di Roma declared: "The Belgian and Dutch request for assistance is nothing more than official and public manifestation of a pre-existing armed solidarity...
...What has happened fills us with horror and sorrow. . . . Neutrality as such is no defense in these times. We have no illusions. ..." So spoke the sober Stockholm Tidningen last week as Sweden, only one of the Oslo Group's six peaceful powers as yet unscathed by war, prepared to recast her shattered foreign policy, seek a strong new friend in Moscow. What disgusted the Swedes as much as anything was that day-old German papers, arriving in Sweden the morning of the Lowlands invasion, front-paged an official D. N. B. declaration that all talk of such an invasion...
...record of our class, we were busy listening to classical music, reading good books, and speculating on the value of a liberal education. We had no time for scrontching, as one of my classmates used to put it. We were a sober and thoughtful generation, interested only in vital issues...
...Sober, solid, and imposing as the Tafts who own it is the Cincinnati Times-Star. Like the Tafts. it is a bulwark...
...Angeles, citizens scarcely raise their eyebrows at sights that seem bizarre in other U. S. cities. On downtown streets they have grown accustomed to seeing women in pink pants & mink coats, sober grownups dodging in & out of traffic on motorized scooters, family sedans with Gospel quotations gold-lettered on their doors. Last week, Los Angelenos acquired another anomaly. Hereafter, when they go to the fights at the Olympic Auditorium, they will see a woman referee in the ring...