The Archive · 1940

The Unlucky Forties

This may or may not be an unlucky year for Herr Hitler; but the ex-Kaiser, who has just celebrated his Bist birthday at Doorn, is filled with foreboding, I am told. Like the present ruler of Germany he is superstitious about numbers, and the

in 40 considered an unlucky one And the life of "William III ended exactly a century later.

Iam reminded of another "unlucky"

1937 the number of horses in this country dropped from 1,600,000 to

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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