Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...only use Italy has for such a land is to threaten Britain's hold on the southern entrance to the Red Sea and the route to the Orient, a hold otherwise confined to the port of Aden across the Gulf and the island of Perim in the strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia...
Hell & Heaven. The wreck of a country that is Spain today could use a few conquests - Gibraltar, probably a slice of French Morocco and Algeria, possibly a nip of Southern France - to divert the people's minds from their empty bellies, their sick and their war-crazed, their smoldering hatred and ever-present fear. Spaniards say: "It is hell now, but it is heaven compared to the war." Half a million are still in jail, packed six to ten in two-man cells, sleeping in two-hour relays. Twenty or 30 a day are executed...
Jews in Germany were last week forbidden to use telephones except for calls to doctors and hospitals, ordered to remove red crosses painted on their hospital roofs as protection from bombing, forbidden to enter stores and markets except between 4 and 5 p.m. Das Schwarze Korps, mouthpiece of Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo, proclaimed that Hitler's gift to Europe will be a "Jewless peace...
...might say I am almost destitute," said he. "What is the use of having money if you cannot get it? With strict economy we have enough to live on for a year, but there can be no extravagance. We are nothing but refugees, like millions of others. We must be thankful that we are still alive...
...City are the med ical and moral border blasters who shove their way into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud ; the Rev. Sam Morris who daily lets fly on the evils...