28 John w vandercook

Tweety's Breakfast of Champions brings you John W. Vanderkook, author, explorer, student of world politics and famous news commentators. Mr. Vanderkook. Good evening. In this critical period of the world's fortunes, the Axis leaders in at least one respect have been very lucky.

With a possible exception of Atele and Alaric, Mussolini and Adolf Hitler have probably been more passionately hated by more people than any men who ever lived. Yet they have led charmed lives. There is no record even of any serious attempt ever having been made to assassinate Hitler.

Pot shots have been taken at Mussolini, but bad luck and bad aim prevented their finding of vital spot. The devil it would seem does take care of his own. Today there is a suggestion that that run of luck is ended.

King Boris Gerea died at dusk today. Because of his death is officially uncertain. One account has it that the 49-year-old Tsar of the Bulgars was taken off by a severe heart attack. The Italians contradict that diagnosis and hint that in a few days the truth will be officially revealed.

The German news service insists that King Boris suffered from an ailment of the lungs. Rumor insistently has it that both may be telling part of the truth, and the real cause of Boris' death was a hot spirit of Assassin's bullets, which entered the region of the monarch's lungs and heart.

The old iron and bronze bells in the square Byzantine towers of Bulgaria's innumerable churches and old monasteries told twenty times to mark his passing. Simeon, the only son of Boris and of his Italian consort in fulfillment of the ancient formula, has become the new king.