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Mixed Company

Various famous people find themselves ill queer eompany in the 1.939 Dcrily Moil Y ear Book.

Looking down the alphabetic list of current celebrities you will find that Neville Chamberlains next to Charles Chaplin—the link of the umbrella, no doubt. But what link, other than that of the alphabet, is there between Herr Henlein and Leslie Henson?

Most odd of all the rapprochements is that. of Cardinal Hinsley and Adolf Hitler. But the liaison which suggests the most comment is that of Churchill and Ciano. . .

Perhaps a peaceful omen for the New Year can be deduced from the ideological lamb and the lion lying down together in the. names of Mussolini and Gilbert. Murray.




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