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FRIDAY. JANUARY 19. 19457
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NEVER STRONG
AT BEST
The surprising thing
about the fall of the Bon
omi government in Italy
and the difficulty about
finding a successor is not
that it fell but that it last
ed as long as it did. Never
strong at best, it has been
plagued by conditions
which even the strongest
regime would have found
difficult to cope with. For
at no time since Premier
Bonomi formed his govern
ment with the support of
the six anti-Fascist parties
have the Italians been mas
ters of /their own destinies.
The richest part of Italy
was then and remains still
in enemy hands, while in
the area where the Italian
government is technically
free to operate, no action
can be taken that does not
have the active or tacit ap
proval of the Allies. To be
sure the Allies have to an
increasing degree pursued
a hand-off policy during
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recent months. However,
they have never renounced
the right to interfere in
Italian affairs should the
successful conduct of the
war demand it.
On top of conditions
which have inevitably
crippled the initiative of
Bonomi’s cabinet, the gov
ernment has suffered from
growing disunity within
its ranks. Its left and right
wing supporters have
never altogether seen eye
to eye, and this tendency i
to divide has been accen-1
tuated as Italy’s problems
have multiplied. There,
have been sharp differ-:
ences of opinion over re-:
construction, over /the au-!
thority to be given to the
Committee of National
Liberation representing
the partisan elements op
erating in the north, and
over the questions of the
purging of former Fascist
elements that have some
how managed to retain
their places ifn. the bureau
| cracy as well as in industry
i and finance.
Probably it will make
very little difference |
! whether, as is rumored,
Bonomi makes a new try
I at forming a government.
For under existing circum
stances the art of govern
ment in Italy. is a species
of shadow boxing. The
Italians are being allowed
to play at it, for govern
ment in a real sense is im
possible 'in a land dominat-:
ed by outsiders. And the
Allies don’t seem to be
i helping much. For in
| stance the British cold
shoulder to Count Sforza
whose high standing at the
fore of the army of free
dom antedated this war,
certainly requires explan
ation. Basically, of course,
the confusion that prevails
in Italy is one of the many
grim legacies which Benito
Mussolini left to his coun
try, since II Duce allowed
no other man the oppor
tunity to learn leadership.
—(Washington Post).
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THE BIBLE
So great is the demand
for Bibles and such is the
shortage of paper that the
Bible Societies of Britain
and America have combin
ed to order 105,000 com
plete Bibles and 270,000
New Testaments printed
in Sweden. These books
however, are not to be in
English, but an French,
Bulgarian, Czech, Eston
ian, Greek, Lettish, Pol
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ish, Romanian and Serbian.
It used to be that . trade
followed the flag. Now it
is the Bible which has that
distinction.
As for the Bible -in Eng
lish, it is far and away the
best seller. No modern au
thor, however great his
popularity, is even an also
ran as compared to Bible
sales. One reason for the
immense current demand
is that nearly all fathers
and mothers, when their
sons are called into the
armed forces, see that a
Bible is part of their out
fit.
The Bible is the one
book in all the world that
is inexhaustible. A man
may read it from child
hood to old age and still
find it new. It contains
fiction, drama, poetry, his
tory and philosophy as
well as religion, but al
ways it points out the
straight and narrow path
which leads man through
the temptations of this
world to the joys of heav
en above.—(Juneau Em
pire).
Read it in The Nugget.
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„ (January 19, 1935)
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from Los Angeles to New York
in 11 hours and 59 minutes.
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caterpillars as their comparative
usefulness in the fire depart
ment.
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