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To New York the Atlantic Clipper brought King's Messenger John Roland Robinson, M. P., bound from Downing Street to the British Embassy in Washington. Firmly tied to his wrist, Messenger Robinson carried a sealed canvas dispatch bag, hole-studded to insure immediate sinking if thrown overboard in case of capture or plane wreck.
Exiled German Biographer Emil Ludwig (The Nile, Cleopatra) told Manhattan newshawks that he thought things looked bad for Germany. Said he: "Germany will run out of material and will have no money with which to replenish her armaments. Mussolini's aid will not be sufficient. . . ."
In Rome, Ga., workmen began dismantling a statue of the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus—gift of Mussolini.
Capitalizing on that great trade festival, Father's Day, the Institute of American Meat Packers dispatched tenderly aged, three-inch-thick porterhouse steaks to famed fathers. The Institute kept secret the identity of all but one of the recipients: Callander, Ontario's Oliva Dionne, world's No. 1 father.
Quipped Hearstian Humorist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer: "Our military preparedness in the last 20 years consisted mostly of shooting breakfast food out of guns."
*Other cancellations: 1870 (Franco-Prussian War), 1920 (after World War I).