In the sophomore days of Fascism, a favorite gag in the U. S. was the one about Il Duce warning his little King: "Emmanuel, if you don't behave yourself I'll take your papa's picture off the olive-oil tins." Not the least significant of the incredible and terrible events of last week was that this gag should come truein another land of another King. The Germans removed the likeness of King Haakon from all tins of the little sardines which Norwegians call brislings. To a seagoing fisherfolk, brislings were a symbol.
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