The following items were printed in the (June, 2001) issue of The Prophetic Expositor:

For those interested in the subject of "Migration", Deutschland Magazine D20017F No. 6/2000 December/January E5 devoted the entire issue to the subject. This glossy magazine, from Germany, is published in English by Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, in co-operation with the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Berlin.

The Toronto Globe and Mail of January 29, 2001
carried the Obituary of Maria Jose of Savoy, The last queen of Italy. The queen, dead at 94, was the widow of King Umberto II, who was king for less than a month in 1946, until a June referendum in which Italians voted to scrap the monarchy and make the country a republic. Italian royalist and monarchist elements are mourning her passing, remembering "with great respect her great love for Italy, her exemplary dignity and her liberal views."

The same issue of The Globe and Mail
carried the news that, after two years of investigating the extent of atrocities in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, "War-crimes units exhumed bodies of about 4,000 civilian victims" which is a far cry from "the tens of thousands of casualties NATO claimed prior to the commencement of an air war in the region in early 1999." "We were told there were 100,000 bodies everywhere," said Dr. Markesteyn, 69, Manitoba's former chief medical examiner. Dr. Markesteyn's figures were corroborated by the official figures offered by Carla Del Ponte, prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, who recently announced that the UN's forensic program in Kosovo had ended.
"Our pathologists conducted a total of 1,807 autopsies," Ms. Del Ponte said... . "The first casualty of war is truth," said Paul Buteux, professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba. "It gets very murky. I have no doubt that whoever was putting those intelligence reports together prior to the NATO air campaign would be under pressure to put things in the worst possible light. There was a point when the spin doctors came in."
COMMENT: It certainly makes one wonder whether there were some propagandists and liars at work, paving the way to the present Kosovo dilemma and whether ulterior agendas were served by the bombing. How many lives of innocent Serbs did the bombing take? Is it possible that the plan envisioned allowing Albanian Moslems to eradicate most of the Serbian holy shrines in Kosovo so that, should events call for the clandestine removal of the Mosque of Omar on Temple Mount, fingers could be pointed at Serbian retaliation as a cause of its destruction? Just asking!
While we're at it, we noted two headings from the G & M of February 20: "Oil prices bubble up after raid - Fallout from Iraq bombings boosts futures while OPEC mulls another production cut." The adjacent heading reads: "Turkish turmoil helps euro - Currency gets boost from political clash." Again, what interests are involved?

From The Weekly Telegraph No. 500 of February 21-27, 2001 we noted two Obituaries:
One of Air Marshal Sir Harold Maguire, a spitfire pilot who, captured by the Japanese, defended other prisoners in extreme hardship, winning the DSO. In 1965, he became Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence).
The second was of Hermione Countess of Ranfurly, author of "To War with Whittaker" who followed her husband to Palestine during the war, and eventually became confidential secretary to the head of Special Operations Executive in Cairo. "By the end of the war she probably knew more secrets than any civilian in the region and had managed, as one senior officer put it, to 'out-manoeuvre every general in the Middle East.'"
COMMENT: Of such people Britain drew the strength to grasp victory.

From the same issue of The Weekly Telegraph":
We were sorry to read the Obituary of Dale Evans, widow of Hollywood cowboy Roy Rogers. Enduring personal tragedy, the devoted couple made 30 films, 194 half-hour episodes of The Roy Rogers Show, and later hosted The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans show. Also the Obituary of Anne Lindbergh, wife and later co-pilot of Charles Lindbergh, who was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic. The kidnapping of their baby son drew world attention to their tragedy.

From The Toronto Globe and Mail of 16 February, 2001,
the Obituary of Geoffrey Bibby, the Archeologist who found the ancient central-Arabian capital of Dilmun (from 3rd millennium BC.) In the Second World War, his knowledge of Swedish diverted him from the Royal Artillery to foreign intelligence service. A long-time resident of Denmark, in 1970 he took charge of the information department at Moesgaard museum, where one of his innovations was an annual Viking fair. Associated Press

In Majesty Magazine Vol. 22 No. 3, of March, 2001
appeared the following delightful anecdote concerning Queen Victoria, as related by one of her grandsons, Kaiser Wilhelm II. "She had invited the aged Admiral Foley to dinner to tell her about the sinking of his vessel, the Eurydice. After he gave his account, the Queen asked him about the health of his sister, whom she knew well. The hard-of-hearing admiral, still pursuing his original train of thought, bellowed out: 'Well Ma'am, I am going to have her turned over and have a good look at her bottom and have it well scraped.' According to the Kaiser, 'The effect of this answer was stupendous. My grandmother put down her knife and fork, hid her face in her handkerchief and shook and heaved with laughter until the tears rolled down her face.'"
The Toronto Globe and Mail of March 1, 2001 and later issues reports the Afghan Taliban (Moslem) destruction of ancient Buddhist rock statues. The issue of March 5 G&M also reported Swiss voter rejection of talks on EU membership, and another of the slaying, in Zimbabwe, of Gloria Olds, the mother of a prominent activist who himself was recently killed in the violence concerned with occupancy of white-owned farms by black "war vets" with the Mugabe Government's apparent approval. The Weekly Telegraph No. 502, March 7-13, 2001 carried a much longer account of this tragedy. The same issue also held the Obituary of Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian Lutheran pastor who endured 14 years of Communist imprisonment for his missionary work. This issue likewise noted that English, spoken by a 3rd of the EU citizens, is fast becoming the lingua fanca of the European Union.

The Toronto Globe and Mail of March 31, 2001
carried the Obituary of Helge Ingstad, the Explorer who discovered Vinland at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The same G&M issue held a long article reviewing the life of Sandford Fleming, whose missed train connection led him to organize Standard Time throughout the world.

The Weekly Telegraph No. 506 of Apr. 4-10, 2001
carried a picture of the reconstructed face from a 1st century Jewish skull. We would not question the accuracy of the computer image of a swarthy coarse-featured man with short beard and hair if the suggestion was not made that Jesus Christ looked like the reconstruction. It does admittedly resemble many Jewish faces. The problem is that at least half the populace of Palestine at the time of Christ's First Advent were descendants of the Edomites of Mount Seir, whose ancestors derived from the Hittite (Gen. 26:34-35) and Ishmaelite (Gen. 28:8-9) wives of Esau and the Edomites of Mount Seir were those whom John Hyrcanus had forced to become Jews a century before this. The Davidic lineage was not so constructed and thus would bear the characteristics of a more traditional north-western European visage, like that researched by Holman Hunt for his famous painting of Christ, lantern in hand, knocking at the weed-encumbered Door.

The Toronto Globe and Mail of 11 April, 2001
carried a small item headed "Explorer unveils map of Alexandria", stating that the sunken city was being researched by the French underwater explorer Franck Goddio.

Steven Thoburn, that greengrocer who sold 1 lb. Of bananas has been convicted, and faces fines which could reach $140,000.00 when court costs are added in, according to G&M of 10 April, 2001 and The Weekly Telegraph No. 507 of Apr. 11-17, 2001! That Metric Law, under which he is being prosecuted was agreed by just 14 MP's in a meeting lasting just 21 minutes according to The Weekly Telegraph No. 508 of Apr. 18-24, 2001.

The Weekly Telegraph Apr. 11-17 notes, in brief,
"Basques are brothers of the Celts." "THE WELSH, Scots and Irish are genetic blood-brothers of the Basque people, according to a new study. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the first direct evidence of a close relationship between the Celts and the Basques. The Basques are thought to be the closest descendants of the Palaeolithic people who established the first settlements in Britain more than 10,000 years ago."
COMMENT: Well, perhaps they got it half-right anyway!

The Weekly Telegraph No. 508 of Apr. 18-24, 2001
held several items:
1. A comment article by Christopher Booker explains the foot and mouth crisis, which has carried off over a million animals in Britain, most of which were perfectly healthy. They were killed on orders of the Continental EU nations whose farmers want to grab the markets traditionally served by competing farmers in the UK. "Brussels is adamant that Britain cannot use mass vaccination." It all reminded your Editor of a certain "Protocol 6, #7"!
2. Headline: "Third of Britons believe Jesus rose from the dead"
3. A small item headed 'Black Virgin' was originally white'
AMID Spain's Holy Week ceremonies, it was reported that the Black Virgin of Montserrat, one of the nation's most revered religious icons and the foremost symbol of Catalan nationalism, was originally white. La Morenetz, a statue of the Virgin Mary, is in the monastery of Montserrat, 30 miles north of Barcelona. Renovators working for the government said the hands and face of the statue were turned black either by prolonged exposure to candle smoke or by a chemical reaction caused by a varnish used as a paint sealant."

From The Toronto Globe and Mail 14 April, 2001:
"Comic strip found to be offensive to Jews" headed an article by James Adams, Toronto, and Caroline Alphonso, Vancouver. The strip "B.C." featured a menorah, the seven flames of which were extinguished one by one as the last seven "words" of Christ on the cross were pronounced. For British Israelites, the theme was not in the slightest offensive, as we claim the Tabernacle Menorah as our OT symbol for Christ (Revelation 1:10-20). But then, Jews might not realize that fact. (See the Menorah in the painting "If My People...", behind the figure of Britannia, - painted in 1979!)