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THE BORGER (TEXAS) DAILY HERALD
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We Most Ban Faith
Two biHion, five hundred million in good United
States dollars is truly o lot of money either to give
or lend by one nation to another, whether in cash or
merchandise: however, if we give careful thought
t* all of Hie factors involved in President Roosevelt s
proposal to render Hits additional aid to Great Britain,
most Americans will be convinced thot the suggestion
is both modest and fair.
Without effective and immediate assistance
from the United States, Great Britain stands a chance
to lose the war to Germany regardless of present
successes against the weak Italian front in the Bal-
kans and in North Africa.
The great majority of native born, honest-to-
goodness American citizens want Great Britain to win
the war—-and for very good reasons.
Should Germany win, there is good cause to
believe that, sooner or later, the United States, alone
and with discord bred by fifth-column termites here
at home, will have to face the combined powers of
Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia. The prospect is
not a very pleasant one.
Once in the war, either with or without Great
Britain at our side, we would burn up more than three
billion dollars worth of munitions of war, not to men-
tion property losses and the dreaded loss of American
lives.
Once Great Britain is out of the way, if worse
comes to worse, those members of fifth-column pres-
sure groups in our United States would make them-
selves felt, and a victorious Germany would demand
that we respect these "minorities."
They are here now. They are in every walk of
American life, ready to strike but to some extent
restrained by the fact that "the right moment has
not arrived."
In our own way, humanely but effectively, Amer-
icans will deal with these rats who would sell Ameri-
can lives into enemy hands. The most kindly attitude
that we can take is that of sending them back to
their homelands across the seas where they can mix,
breed and mingle with their own breeds.
Wc don't want them here now, nor after the
war is over.
It is gratifying to hear that certain labor unions
are voting to remove Communist leadership.
Take aliens and traitors out of American labor
unions, and you will have left able and intelligent
American citizens from which the nation will have
nothing to fear.
It is regretted that the CIO did not carry their
resolution further and make it read out of their or-
ganization any and all Communists, Nazis, and
-ascists.
Merely going on record against these ISMS is not
enough.
Actions, not words, must spell the end of these
fifth-column traitors and spies. Imagine how long
an Americanism organization would last in Germany,
Italy or Russia where even their own Rotary and other
civic clubs are banned by. the state.
The war in Europe will not end soon. The United
States wiH not let Britain down. Both Great Britain
and the United States combined could not defeat
Germany in less than two years—if at all. It is entirely
possible that exhausted nations may finally call it a
draw and the war cease of its own weiaht.
Just how to deal with Great Britain is a matter
for Washington to work out.
Regardless of Hie type of assistance determined
upon, it will take faith on Hie part of the American
people for their elected leadership to back it up in an
active and effective manner.
Any trade with England should net the United
States some gains that will assure our nation an equal
basis for world trade shored with Great Britain.
We know that Great Britain, once the war is
r, will resume her position in active competition
trade all over the world and especially in South
trica.
These are details that our State Deportment
Jut and no doubt is planning to cover in
agreement to help the British irt this war.
>rtant thing is that since we must deal with
a victorious Germany or a shattered but un-
* Britain after the war, we would rather deal
f democratic and civilized peoples of the
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RONNIE FIGHTS BACK
CHAPTER XXI
WTESLEY'S lariat loop
snaked out
true despite the darkness
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all pacts as scraps of paper—end
Sip
had
gracefully and
set-
tled over the rider's shoulders.
Wes whipped his right arm back-
ward to Jerk it tight and thus
in an instant the rider's arms were
pinioned to his sides. Wes dug
in his heels.
"Oh-h-hu-u-u- uhl"
The response was a weird little
staccato squeal of fright, almost
feminine. Plump—down the un-
saddled rider fell. The horse
snorted and jumped off to one
side.
Wes was already running. The
last few feet he literally dived
nnd landed squarely on the dark
form there on the grot ad.
"Take it easy!" he growled.
But the victim declined to obey.
The person became a wildcat of
(tailing legs. One Knee «truck
Wes a terrific blow in the face, A
heel drove hard into his ribs. The
defender was far from helpless,
even if arms and body were in a
tight lariat loop.
His victim, however, was n«H
tlceably smaller than Wes had ex-
pected, and in spite of the writh-
ing. breathing, scrapping resist-
ance Wes found that he could
hold the ropt* tight and Anally get
a half-hitch around the ankles. He
drew this tight, too, but—already
he was beginning to sense some-
thing.
"D-darn you, if—if—!"
The victim gasped that much
v/hile struggling, and Wesley York
frcEe.
Standing now, hi suddenly was
motionless, mouth open in aston-
ishment. The figure at his feet
still fought the rope furiously, and
for an endless moment Wes just
stood there disbelieving his own
ears. Then all at once he knew
for sure!
"Ronnie! he breathed. "R-Ron-
.tie!"
* * •
CHE stopped fighting. Bent al-
^ most double there on the
ground, she lifted her head to see
him better In the night glow.
"Is it—is it—?" Oh, Wes!"
He couldn't possibly have been
more contrite. He was almost pit-
iful. Delicately, tenderly, as If
she were now extremely fragile,
he released the lasso and slipped
it off her, his hands shaking and
his voice quivering as he tried
every conceivable way to apolo-
gise. When he had her on her
feet again she literally had to
interrupt him.
"Gee-mi-nee, Wes, you scared
me out of 10 years' growth, but I
don't think I*m badly hurt. I
must have thumped you pretty
hard once, though, didn't IT I
tried my best tot I would surely
have killed you if I could!"
"I—I—naturally! I even ex-
pected it, Ronnie. I—"
"So you fought like a bear.
Goodness, We«, I'd hite to have
you for an enemy if this is the
way you treat your friends! But
don't you think we'd better say
what we—?"
"Yes, Ronnie! I was, uh, twill-
ing Lona Montoya. She—"
"So was I."
"Hunh?"
"Wes, to tell you the truth, Tve
been snooping on Lona since that
day in the Canyon. This after-
noon I saw her get a horse from
the stables and ride away. Andre
Girardeau was with me at the
time, but as soon as I could shake
him I got a horse and followed.
I wasn't sure which way she went
but 1 just acted on a hunch."
"Oh Oh, lordy, Ronnie, you
are certainly—!"
"But, Wes, weren't you curious
about all that, too? Interested?
And—don't you remember it was
near here that I had a scrap with
five Japanese?"
"But you, Ronnio, coming out
alone—!"
She laughed a bit. "Fooey on
that! I bet you'd huve me sit
home and knit long underwear!"
He sighed. No man ever seemed
to win an argument with Roñica
Bailey. He went to catch up her
horse again and when he helped
her remount he noted that she Was
utterly it ease. His own chin, by
contrast, was aching; almost sure-
ly he would have to face the in-
dignity of dark bruises again!
They talked over the situation
at length and decided to go bask
home, after all. In the fighting
they might have been heard. If
not, Lona would have gone on
far ahead In the delay anyhow. It
would be too risky in every sense
to try further snooping tonight in
inbo
Canyon, so Wesley got
they started
Rainbow
his own horse and
back to Pueblo.
• a a
TJECAU3E It was not much out
of their way to go by his
home, Wes led them there before
going to the stables. He went In-
side a moment and came out car-
rying a pearl-handled gun.
"Ronnio," he spoke calmly, se-
riously, "take this pistol and carry
it with you whenever you go uny-
where. Do you hoar me?"
"But, Wee—"
"No buts! You do as I say. *
won't have you risking your life
as you did tonight, unarmed. I
don't like for you to risk it any
way, but I know you will do aa
you please. I'm sorry I had to
be rough tonight, and if you think
there is any further chance of
fighting any time, you oome di-
rect to me."
, Ronnie didn't answer.
It was, in truth, the first time
any man had ever talked to her
in such tones. Any New Yorft man
who had tried thus to give Iter
orders would have had a raucy
reprisal at once. But--oddly—
Ronnie Bailey was secretly elated!
She didn't even mention that shfe
already owned a pistol. Sho jutft
let him escort her to the stables
and then to her car, and she bode
him good-night with a new note
of resr*ot.
And In his own right, Wesley
York also was elated.
* * a
T\OCTORING facial wounds for
a second time—and for a sec-
ond time making lame but accept-
ed explanations to his mother—
the young college .instructor re-
tlectnd that the student Roñica
Bailey, for whom he was faculty
adviser, was the most extraordi-
nary somebody 1 had ever met.
She fitted into no known category
of co-eds. She was utterly dif-
ferent—and delightful. Coura-
geous? She had done a daring
thing, alone; and in a crisis she
had fought back like n wild beast.
And yet half an hour later she
was, save for disheveled hair and
clothing and a few bruises of her
own, as serene and lovely as ever.
Contemplation of these things
made his night a happy one, and
the glow of satisfaction (and of
revived hope), carried over Into
the next day and the next. It
carried, in fact, into the regular
weekly faculty meeting in the
Commons where the informal talk
Included reports on student ac-
tivities of every sort, such as ev-
ery college faculty has.
Wesley was much Interested
when an elderly professor unex-
pectedly mentioned Ronica's
name, but all In a moment his
glow of satisfaction vanished.
"We may be Hsing the Bailey
girl before the semester is over,"
this elderly gentleman predicted.
"I just happened to see in a New
York paper where she is engaged
—here, I clipped it for this meet-
ing. She is a national figure in
society, you know. This column-
ist writes often about her. Seems
the bridegroom will be the young
Frenchman we see with her «0
often. Named Girard i."
(To Be Continued)
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AN INTERRUPTED PARTY
CHAPTER XXII
ff/ESLEY YORK, deeply hurt,
" told himself all at once that he
was tired of endless worrying.
Roñica had seemed so fine, so
utterly fair with him and charm-
ing withal, that he just couldn't
envision her being in love with a
man like Andre Girardeau. Andre
plainly was & playboy of a type
all too common; Wes could hardly
feel that Ronnie had been taken
in by him.
"I shall demand 'he truth my-
self," Wesley suddenly avowed
after supper this evening. Where-
fore, in characteristic action, he
drove immediately out *f town in
his old sedan. His --ar, incidentally
was in much better shape than it
had been on his original trip in
this direction; its rattles were
gone, Its motor tuned carefully,
and its body really attractive
under new paint. He hoped Roñica
would notice it
Another car was parked at the
Rocking R ranch home when he
got there, so Wes knew instantly
that he wouldn't be able to ask
Ronnie his point-blank question.
His idea had been to demand of
her if she really did love Andre
Girardeau, and to beg A her to—
to—well, he hadrrt planned
umnist He wished he might tell
Ronnie of An#*rs,meetings with
f that wouldn't
He'd have to
room—a
in log
Lona Moritóyft,
diplomatic
; of something else.
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hall beautifully
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for a moment at the
but boih Mr. Bailey
aaw him. A moment
in the midst of seven
co-eds, lovely girls all, who
bantering htm as the only eligible
male present to dance with them.
Six guests had driven out to visit
Ronnie, with no dates tonight be-
cause of school ruling.
I for Wes.
into
and
him Into jitterbugging. Good sport
at heart, Wes tried it Moreover,
he showed some talent—If jitter-
bug steps can be called such—and
presently was actually enjoying
himself. No normal man can long
remain unhappy amid seven viva-
cious girls. Finally Ronnie Bailey
herself interrupted Teeny and oth-
ers who had pre-empted Wes.
"Goodness, you girls are ter-
rible!" she declared, brightly. "Dr.
York came to see me—not you!"
a • •
'PHAT merely intensified the
rivalry. And built up Wesley's
spirits even more. The strange,
delightful stimulant of feminine
attention and approval was over-
whelming to him and before 9:30
he found himself doing and saying
things he would never have
dreamed himself capable of. Just
for plain old fun they created new
dance steps. They chimed In with
radio music and chorused the
songs, stopping to improvise new
words when they cared to. They
cracked jokes and laughed inordi-
nately. They even revived the old
game of "handles" whereby you
do cute imitations with fingers and
hands, and Wes himself proved
the cleverest of all.
In short, an outsider looking in
would surely have taken Dr.
Woodrow Wesley York, Ph.D., not
for a dignified Instructor In archae-
ology but as some lively member
of the junior or senior class, a
young collegian very popular with
the co-eds.
Harmless and impromptu as it
was, this hour represented .the
highest good time Wesley York
had ever known. At about 10 Mr.
Bailey himself came ttoroi
smiled benignly and talked a
before climbing to his upstairs
room and going dutifully to bed.
Youth, said Mr. Bailey, is for
pleasure, but an older fellow
touched with indigestion
have his rest
e e e
JJILARITY inside the Rocking R
**• ifench mansion
in man's elothss, «rove out toward
the ranch with a man about 10
o'clock. Car lights were turned off
and (heir car parked on the
plain, headed back toward
Umis than half a mile from the
wilding.
"There is the residence," the
man said, "and there the hangars,
moonlight, to bother us, but
glow from the stars.
BP®* * ^aaw
pistol?"
«t the northeast
sohuaro cactus
Greeks Csptiurs
Chimara As Foe
Avoids "Noose"
Picked Italians In
Retreat As Victor
Encirclas Position
By The Associated Press
ATHENS, Dec. 23 — (<<P>— The
Greek army occupied the strategi-
cally important Albanian coastal
town of Chimara, Premier Gen-
eral John Metaxas announced to-
day, after crushing an Italian at-
tempt to holt the advance toward
Valona, less than 30 miles farther
up the coast.
Victory in the week-long battle
for this Italian supply base be-
tween Valona and Porto Eclda, it
was reported, came when the Ita-
lians withdrew to avoid being cut
off by Greek forces whicK threat-
ened' to encircle the town.
In taking Chimara from pick-
ed Italian troops holding strongly
fortified positions, the Greeks
claimed the capture of the 153rd
battalion of Fascist militia, made
up of 800 men and 30 officers.
Great quantities of war materials
were said also to have been taken.
The Greeks earlier had reported
skirting the town and said their
troops were fighting forward to-
ward the Port of Valona, on the
Adriatic, less than 30 miles up the
coast.
A Greek spokesman said then
that Chimara was "under absolute
control of our artillery," and the
Greek forces were reported
"shooting the works" to keep the
Italians in retreat.
Twenty miles to the northeast,
on a second road to Vaionia, the
Greeks claimed "brilliant success-
es" in a "very large scale" battle
for control of the mountainous
Tepeieni-Klisura region
The Greek spokesman declared
the Italians were smashed back
there with heavy losses after a de-
termined stand of nearly a week.
Other reports last night said one
choice Fascist regiment had been
cut to pieces by the latest fierce
Greek assault near Tepeleni and
thot two whole battalions were
surrounded.
"Our army is advancing steadi-
ly and securely," the spokesman
said. "In the coastal sectors the
enemy offered stiff resistance x x
ond tried to maintain himself in
strongly fortified positions pro-
tected by barbed wire entangle-
ments, but has been unable to
succeed.
Italian People
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Returning Prosperity
(Continuad from PAGE ONE)
flue. Lighted, it will glow no more
than a cigaret for two minutes or
so, then it will touch the prepared
material. Hurry then to the rear
corner and repeat. The fuse there
ends at the largest rock that pro-
trudes, under the tweedlana vine.
Light both and come directly back
to the car. There will be ample
time.
"Do not run, either going or
coming, lest you arouse suspicion.
If you meet any one merely say
'Hello' and go on by. Make your
voice deep. Of course, in emer-
gency, your gun is—"
"I understand," said the worrar..
"I am not a fool. And don't fail at
your end, either, for this may be
our only chance."
a . a a ■
WESLEY YORK, playing his own
" accompaniment on toe Bailey
grand piano, roared out "The
nding Song" with a truly im-
ive baritone. The seven girls
a semi-circle around him,
linked arm on shoulders.
"Ooooooo, Doc-tor York!" gushed
Teeny Trovers, In appreciation.
"You do sing beautifully, Was,"
Roñica declared. "Do It again and
we'll try it with you, hunh?"
They did three stanzas and were
elated, and because range songs
were a new experience to most of
the dude college girls here, they
sang every one Wesley could re-
member—"Home On the Range"
and "Cielito Lindo" and "My Fi-
esta Song" and "Lowell of the Dos
S Ranch" and "Nuevo Mexico"
and snatches of many another.
Then because the mood struck
him, Wes swung into the haunt-
ingly beautiful music of "Pueblo
Mio," the university's own song,
with its weird minor thumm-boom
thumm-boom background of In-
dian tom-toms and Its quick chorus
with yip-Kip shoutings and
were so en-
that they
to «tiythinK else
, but as "Pueblo
of the l
Two.
With no^
I lord!" he exclaimed. "The
n's full of smoke!"
ley all turned, staring, motion
ess for an endless moment
their silence came en
pared favorably with the pre-de-
presslon years. The Light had 4#
pages Friday compared with 38
■ >n the corresponding date lost
year, The News Friday issue to-
taled 46 pages, equal to the issue
on the comparable dny In 1020 and
eight pages fatter than 1939's.
The size of the Times-Herald
Friday, Dec. 13 was 64 pages and
last Friday was 56 pages.
The afternoon Star-Telegram in
Fort Worth rose from 24 to 36
pages on the comparable Fridays
before Christmas in 163!) ;<nd 1940.
Manchester
(Continued from PAGE ONE)
23—(V 'i—Heavy bombs which hit
two public air raid shelters, one
of which housed almost BOO par-
sons, left aa undisclosed number
of casualties today after a night-
lone Gorman air attack on this
city in the industrial heart of
England.
Bombs also wrecked a moving
picture theater and set fires to
scores of buildings.
The raid on the most densely
populated section of England start-
ed in the early evening when the
streets were crowded.
Thick smoke still hung over the
city this morning.
Wave after wave of bombers ap-
proached the city from the south
and aproad fanwise over a wide
area. The first wave dropped
flares. Incendiary bombs followed
and high explosive bombs pelted
down after thot.
Rescue parlies still were trying
to free persons trapped in raid
shelters in various parts of the
city 17 hours after the raid start-
ed.
Sixty persons were trapped at
one of the two hotels hit but a
number of them had been released
by daylight.
tear your African empire to shreds
and "tatters ... We are only now
at the beginning of this somber
talc. Who can say where it will
ond? Presently we ahull be forced
to come to much closer grips. How
has all this come ibout and what
is it all for! . . .
"Italians. I will tell you the
truth. One man and one man a-
lone has ranged the Italian peo-
ple in deadly struggle against
the British empire and has da-
privad Italy of the sympathy and
Intimacy of the United States of
America. That he is s great man
I do not deny, but that efter II
years of unbridled power he has
led your country to the horrid
verge of ruin can be denied by
none.
"It is ail one man who, against
the crown and royal family of'
Italy, against the pope and all the
authority of the Vuticun and of
the Roman Catholic church, a-
galnst the wishes of the Italian
people who hud no lust for this
war, has arrayed trustees and in-
heritors of ancient H.une upon the
side of the ferocious pagan barbar-
ians.
"There lies the tragedy of
Italian history and there stands
the criminal who has wrought a
deed of folly and shame."
The Prime Minister said the de-
fense put forward for Mussolini's
action was "of course, the quarrel
about sanctions and Abyssinia"
through which "old friendships
were forgotten." "I declare — and
my words will go far — that noth-
ing that happened in that Abyssin-
ian quarrel can account fur or jus-
tify the deadly strife which has
now broken out between us," he
added.
Churchill said that "we were
content with Italian neutrality"
and that during the first eight
months of war "we paid great def-
erence to Italian interests."
France Mentioned
•'It was not due to weakness,"
he said.
"The French republic for the
moment is stunned. France will
rise again ... the British na-
tion and commonwealth of na-
tions across the globe and. in-
deed. I may say. the English
speaking world are now aroused.
"Why huve you placed your-
selves, you who were our friends
and might have been our broth-
ers, in the path of this avalanche
now only just darted from its base
to roll for ward on Its predestined
track?"
To "prove thot I, Churchill, have
done my best to prevent this war
between Italy and the British Em-
pire," the Prime Minister reod a
message he sent to Mussolini Ma-
16 and what he called Mussolini's
"dusty answer."
"Anyone can see who it was
that wanted peace and who it
) was that meant to have war,,J said
Churchill.
"One man and one man only was
resolved to plunge Italy after all
these years of strain and effort in-
to the whirlpool of war. And what
is the position of Italy today?
"Whore is it thai II Duce has led
his trusting people after 18 years
dictatorial power? What hard
choice is open now?
"It is to stand up to the bat-
tery of the whole British Empire
on the tea, in the air and in
Afrioa and in the vigorous coun-
ter-attack of the Greek nation;
or, on, the other hand, to call
In Attila over Brenner pass with
his hordes of ravenous loldiery
and his ¡jings of gestapo police-
men to occupy, hold down and
protect the Italian people for
whom he and his Kasl followers
cherish the most bitter and out-
spoken contempt that is oh re-
cord between races.
"There Is where one man and
one man only has led you; and
there I leave this unfolding story
until the day come — as come It
will — when the Italian nation
will once more take a hand in
shaping its own fortunes."
British Army
Reinforcements Pass
Italians Being Led
Behind Battle Line
By The Associated
CAIRO, Egypt. Dec. 23 —
British raifed their total of Italian
captives again toddy, announcing
that 39,940 prisoners, including
1,704 'offto*rs,: hove been etov«d
to the rear from the Sidi Barran!
area in North Africa and "several
thousand more" are stlil awaiting
transfer. ■
Crossing paths with the Italians
moving behind the British lines in
the Western desert, steady streams
of British reinforcements were
moving up to the siege line
around battered Bardla, massing
for an assault against the 26,000
survivors of Italy's tenth army
reported trapped in the Lfo^an
port.
The genera! headquarters com-
munique said that, while British
artillery still harassed the Italians
inside Bardiu. "our preparations
outside are progressing."
Reports from the frontier said
that while field and naval guns
buttered Bardia's defenses from
laud and sea, fast mechanized
units which have spearheaded the
British counter invasion struck
off to the west once more.
How for these advance units
penetrated toward Italian Mar-
shal Rodolo Graziani's next line
of defense was not disclosed. It
was said, however that no sign was
seen of an Italian "rescue" drive
to save the troops at Bardiu
British observers assumed that
liardia's defenders had been as-
signed the role of a sasrlfice gar-
rison to hold up the British while
Graxlttni strengthened new de-
fenses to the west, to Tobruk,
Derna and Bengasi.
600 Children Aré
Clothed By Sanfft
WICHITA FALLS, Dec. 23 —
<>P>— Every needy grade and jun-
ior hich school student in Wichita
Falls today learned there really
ts a Santa Claus. They wore cloth-
ed in brand new togs from head to
foot os all 600 of them sang the
praises of a group of Wichita Falls
business men headed by COI W. T.
Knight Santa Claus will pay a
bill of several thousand
(MX
ruoi disappears
With New Plane
LAS VEO.AS, Nev. Die, 23 —
(#1— The mysterious disappear-
ance of pilot Bud Hussey and a
north-American Aviation, Inc.,
combat training plane bound tor
the Canadian Royal Air Force ap-
parently is a secret of tho vast
Caliornia desert.
The craft, due here Thursday
morning on a routine delivery hop.
was unreported sines a few min-
utes after the takeoff from Palm-
dale, Calif. The flight should have
required less than two hourtt
Draft Citric
(Continued from PAGE ONE)
most of it is ).ust plain carelessness,
but If the registrant is stumped
by any of the questions he should
sec an advisory board member
rather than leave the question a
blank."
Then Shuler thumbed through
his fi|e of questionnaires and pull-
ed out, at random from the bunch,
about 10 returned questionnaires
that had a little white slip of
paper clipped onto them.
"Please call this man and have
him complete his questionnaire,"
was the message inscribed on the
stip of paper.
One-hundred - fifty question-
naires will be mailed out this
week. None will be sent Christ-
mas Day.
HeeSC
Damage Abost
(Continuad horn PAGE ONE)
German Friend Of
Ken-Aryans Goes To
Concentration Camp
BERLIN, Dec. 23 — (Ah — Dr.
Heinrhc Grueber, known through-
out the Protestant world for his
efforts in behalf of non-aryan
Christians, was arrested by secret
police toflay and taken to the
Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg con-
centration camp, where the Rev.
Martin Niemoller is Imprisoned.
The cause of tho arrest was not
divulged, but observers presumed
it to have some connection with
the ahtt-Semitic government poli-
cies.
Rev. Niemoller, a IT
monder In the World
been in coi "
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