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...time, my heart, my sword if necessary is at the disposal of your noble nation," wrote the most impressionable of the deputy dupes...
North-of-Europe cartoonists have been making sport of the Italo-Papal Treaty & Concordat ever since it was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). The idea that Dictator Mussolini purposes to use the Catholic Church as a sword of conquest was cartooned lately with savage power in Amsterdam's Notenkraker (Nut Cracker), much to the satisfaction of super-Protestant Netherlanders (see cut). Other cartoonists have drawn Pope Pius XI in a Fascist black shirt and Mussolini with the Papal Tiara perched on his rather bald head. The caricatured insinuation is always that His Holiness and His Excellency are reprehensibly in cahoots...
...Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela. whom the rebels 70 days ago proclaimed "President of Mexico." Ruined and ignored, poor Don Gilberto must rue the day last December when he resigned his honorable post of Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James's and listened to the sword- handy gentlemen who swore they would make him President...
...Meiampus, wears his trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword. As British midshipmen still do, he always car ried when on duty a bright brass telescope, which, uncollapsed, was three-quarters as tall as himself...
Rumania's Queen Marie and U. S. Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney were separately applauded spectators at a bull fight last week in Madrid. Spanish newspapers passionately denied earlier reports (TIME, April 8) that Mr. Tunney, at a private show, killed a bull with one sword-stroke...