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...swing tempo will be rendered by Eddie Wittstein and his music-makers at the informal dance in Yale's Paine Whitney Gymnasium on the evening of December 1; he is tuning up for a turnout of at least 1100 couples. An admission charge of $3.60 per couple will help allay the expenses, $850 of which is allotted for decorations alone. No corsages will be allowed...
...Leader. The new Premier had scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because...
...These brutal, insane and inhuman acts should make it the business of each and every one of us to see that all Germans and Japs in any way connected with perpetrating and executing these crimes be quickly brought to trial and shot. These pictures should allay the American misconception that the only German criminals are those in high places and that the mass of Germans are innocent, God-fearing people, victims of circumstances...
From reliable reports, Russia wants two things from a defeated Germany: 1) machinery; 2) enough tough young Germans to help rebuild the devastated areas of Russia. Would Russia attempt to turn these transplanted Germans, perhaps running into the millions, into Communists? Here there might be Anglo-American suspicions to allay...
...talk of coalition could not allay the fears that plague the apprehensive ministers. A Greek in Greece, Colonel Euripides Bakirdzis, wearer of the British D.S.O., and four friends of the Communist-flavored Liberation Front (EAM), had formed a new committee. The committee might well develop into a government, Tito style. It said that it had vacancies for men from Cairo, if they care to come to Greece...