Foreign News: Nothing Personal

Last week Italy ejected Chicago Daily News Correspondent John Thompson Whitaker, third able Rome representative of his paper to be told in the past 27 months he must go. Fascist officials found genial Tennessean Whitaker's dispatches "displeasing." They could not have liked much better the Daily News's general treatment of Fascist Italy and of Benito Mussolini. Il Duce was recently cartooned in the News puking over the side of a ship into the Mediterranean while the Führer rushes up with a trayful of seasickly dishes tagged "Spanish Hot Tamales, Greece, Turkey, Hungarian Goulash." The Daily News announced that it will...

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