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Show m Li l j Notes of a New Yorker: Dept. of Accurate Reporting: t certain newsmag reports Molotov acted as host at a dinner for Stettlnius Stet-tlnius and Eden during which Molly gave some of the details concerning con-cerning the pinch of the 16 Poles. . . . The news-weekly's sister (a picture mag) on the same date reports re-ports that the dinner was given by Stettinlus in his (Stetty's) apartment! apart-ment! Cum, cum, tellers, who's right? James Gordon Bennett, who founded the N. Y. Herald, made it the most popular newspaper of Its time. . . ."I make it a rule," he declared, "never to be more than a day ahead of the people and never an hour behind!" Franco was discussing the breaking break-ing oft of relations with Germany with one of his henchmen. ... "I believe," stated the latter, "that we should take further steps to show that we are now in the United Nations Na-tions camp." "What do you suggest?" queried the ace bull-thrower of Spain. "I think," continued the henchman, hench-man, "we should set our flags at half mast for Roosevelt and pay tribute to him in the press and on the radio. We should also play Allied Al-lied music on the air, Including even some of the Russian composers." That's going a little too far." warned Franco. "If we get too democratic we may not be invited to the San Francisco conference." Believe it or don't, so wot? . . . Fat, paunchy Hermann Goerlng, nazishtunk No. 2, who was sooo brave and fearless when his luft-waffe luft-waffe was blasting Coventry to bits, showed his true colors when caught To the American soldiers assigned to watch him, he tremulously tremu-lously pleaded: "Guard me well." "Oh, we will," responded one of the G.I.S. "I come from a farm, and a long time ago my father taught me how to take care of pigs." A group of senators were discussing discuss-ing the work of the security conference. confer-ence. Said an anti-Soviet politico: "I'm disappointed in the work of our delegation. They should have seen to it that the Russians were put in their place." "I agree," thundered a second Sowy-bogeyman, "and if the Reds don't know their place, we've got to show 'em by force of arms, if necessary I" "Wait a moment," interrupted a liberal senator. "All you fellows fel-lows talk about Is hemming the Soviets in and fighting them. I thought it was the Axis we were fighting." "Fight the Axis, fight the Axis!" snapped the hate-Russia gent. "That's all you ever think of!" When Norwegian police threw Nazi-puppet Quisling into the jug, he raised vigorous objections. The cops relieved him of a satchel con taining chocolate and cognac. "Give me back my satchel!" Quisling ranted. "I have done nothing noth-ing but good for Norway, and a statesmen like me should not be placed in an ordinary cell!" "Don't worry," soothed one of his guards. "You will soon be placed in an underground vault." A wealthy couple had taken in a little boy of Swiss parentage par-entage at the start of the war. His family sent the youngster on here because of fear of bombings, and he was cared for by his foster-parenta. The other day the youngster was playing with the offspring of the family cook. The cook's kid asked the other: "Was your dad a soldier, and did he have to fight In the war?" "No." answered the little feller. fel-ler. "My father didn't fight because be-cause we are Swiss, and we are neutral." "Yes, I know," replied the first. "My mother's family are Swedish, and they are neutral, too, but which side was your country neutral for?" By Way of Report: Recent photos showing a soldier on his knees with his eyes blindfolded and a Jap samurai sam-urai sword-Juggler ready to be head him are 24 years old. . . . The Allied soldier was not an American. He was Australian. And the King of England awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously to his family. The other day the Will Hays office of-fice announced that it could not permit national release of a full length documentary film recording many of the Nazi atrocities. Ask any wounded marine marking mark-ing time in hospital it he wouldn't like to hear that congress took off the stain ot compulsory apology from the record of the late Major-General Major-General Smedley Butler, two-time winner of the congressional medal, but loser in his denunciation of Mussolini for killing a child with his speeding auto and failing to halt for first aid. The state department In 19M made Butler take a spanking spank-ing and spologlis for saying what you snd you and you have said frequently. |