NO HANDSHAKES
MussoHni has fbted on its effeminacy as a reason for banning liandshaking for Italians. But it requires strength and fortitude to stand up to an official handshaking at the White House weekly receptious, and President Hoover abandoned the custom seven years ago (except at occasional receptions) not because he was a weakling, or that handshaking was effeminate, but because it had become a menace to the health of himself and Mrs. Hoover. At one New Year's reception they shook hands with 6429 people who had just dropped in to offer them the compliments of the season. At his first reception after the war President Harding shook hands with callers at the rate of thirty a minute. The record number of handshakes at a Presidential public reception is said to be 8000; and tbe charge of effeminacy certainly cannot be brqught against the man who stood up to that prodigious total. But handshaking symbolises to the Americans the spirit of democracy, and that may well he ihe leasoo. 'jvhy Mussolini does not favour tho habifc for Italians«-'
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 4
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178NO HANDSHAKES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 4
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