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From the Chinese Embassy in Washington came this: MANY THANKS FOR YOU TELEGRAM. MADAME CHIANG GREATLY APPRECIATES YOUR KIND INVITATION, BUT AS HER ATTENDING PHYSICIANS URGENTLY ADVISE TO REDUCE PUBLIC APPEARANCES TO A MINIMUM DURING PERIOD OF CONVALESCENCE, SHE REGRETS VERY MUCH BEING UNABLE TO AVAIL HERSELF OF THE INVITATION. CHINESE EMBASSY...
...expect to be called away from College into the armed services on very short notice, will have to be especially careful in the matter of cuts, according to the announcement of the new policy, which warned men in such circumstances that, "those who wish to avail themselves of the privilege of final credit on the basis of cumulative grades . . . will find themselves severely handicapped if they have been careless about attendance...
...international responsibility." As the Rhineland, Austria, Sudeten, and Czechoslovakia fell in simple order, the aggrandizement of Hitler drew outraged warnings from Washington. And in the Far East, we hurled verbal brickbats at Japanese participation in the "China Incident," warned Japan, threatened Japan, re-warned Japan, all to no avail...
...churches represented in this Council will . . . continue to avail themselves of the constitutional freedom which the republics of Hispanic America grant to the representatives of every faith...
...Working Committee voted down C. R.'s Moslem proposal 120-to-15. Then they approved a counterproposal against any splitting of India, 97-17. Said C. R. bitterly: "Madras might be cut off. Then no amount of talk of Indian unity will avail...