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Trim little countries are Norway, Sweden, Denmark. And trimmed in a horrifyingly perfect balance are the alternate disasters that await them no matter which side they turn toward in World War II-or, very possibly, even if they just keep on looking dead ahead toward neutrality...
...Turkish newspaper, Yeni Sabah of Istanbul, last week put into plain words the Turkish attitude toward Rumania: "Turkey will enter the war the day a foreign power marches into the Balkans. . . . Our country will not await her turn with folded arms while the Balkans are crushed. That is one mistake we shall not make...
...granite sarcophagus, carved on the sides in bas-relief, has a cover depicting the king as the god Osiris, supine, with a goddess kneeling behind him and stretching protective arms over his head. The sarcophagus contained a silver mummy case. Before opening this, the professor decided to await the arrival of King Farouk, an enthusiastic amateur...
...journey with our wives. Rear Admiral Muselier, Commander of Marseille, personally came over to our truck and assured us that we could sail soon and that our papers and money would be returned to us. In the meantime, however, we had to return to the concentration camp to await further orders. On Oct. 15 the Admiral appeared before us again with his staff to assure us once more of our early departure. Finally on Nov. 1 at 6 p. m. we were called together and 26 out of 30 were transported to a garage, where we were locked...
...Business School await only a substantial research endowment to unleash such an investigation. Dean Donham said, underlying its urgency with the assertion that "Civilization of the kind we value faces public and private breakdown at this administrative level...