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...Avenue, stands an old four-story, buff brick building. Its first floor is occupied by a haberdasher's shop. Next to the shop is a big black door with gleaming brass street numbers-1324. Most passers-by never notice it. But one night last week important business was afoot at No. 1324 Massachusetts Ave. The big black door swung open ten times, each time admitting a blindfolded youth and an escort. These couples marched up the creaky steps, stood at last in a place where, in its long history, few ordinary mortals had set foot. The place: Harvard...
Last week a new movement was afoot: special "paternity furloughs" for soldiers. President Fernand Boverat of the French League Against Depopulation warned recently that unless more furloughs are given, French children born in 1940 may number only some 450,000. Le Populaire asked: "Will the duration of this furlough be the same for all? A captain gets two or three rations, a colonel gets more. Will officers have a longer leave? If a soldier can accomplish his work in four days, will it be considered that his colonel must expend more effort...
...Lord Irwin made British rule less onerous for India. He acknowledged that India had a Nationalist movement afoot. He was willing to work on a long-term basis, for some measure of self-government-with many safeguards for Britain. He made the British Government's historic statement on Indian home rule: "I am authorized on behalf of His Majesty's Government to state clearly . . . that the natural issue of India's constitutional progress is the attainment of dominion status." When he left India the British press almost unanimously acclaimed him as having saved India from a blood...
...Geneva last week it was unlikely that, having failed to do anything effective to help Manchuria, Ethiopia* or Spain and not having even discussed the disappearance of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland,† it could check anything at this late date. But a novel project was nevertheless afoot. With Argentina as their spokesman, the six South American nations still remaining in the League (Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador) demanded that the Soviet Union be expelled and threatened to resign unless the League kicked the Communists...
...Plan. A Supreme Allied Economic Council will parallel and backstop the efforts of the Supreme Allied War Council. It will be divided into six component executive committees, for joint action with respect to aviation, munitions & war materials, oil, food, shipping, economic warfare. Much collaboration is already afoot by Allied commissions in some of these fields. Importance of establishing a Supreme Economic Council is to insure that certain basic principles are observed all down the line. As announced last week, three of these principles...