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...onetime Austrian royal family's collection. The famed U.S. Rainbow Division uncovered the cache last week in a cellar at Saint Johann, Austria. Some of the contents: five major Rembrandts, including the great Large Self Portrait; Pieter Broeughael's rousing Peasant Dance and his terrifying Tower of Babel; Velasquez' portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita; Rubens' Saint Jerome. The Nazi custodian of this treasure, one Major Fabian, had a request to make: for "taking such good care of the collection" didn't 15 of his officers rate free tuition at an Austrian university...
Eight standing, eight kneeling, 16 policemen aimed well, fired. A straight row of white cut stitched across Caruso's back. The back of his head dissolved. For a still moment the courtyard belonged to death. Then there was a brief babel as photographers rushed in for closeups...
Modest Proposal. The debate may become a babel of economic argument on the sort of machine that the Stabilization Fund should be. But some things it cannot be are clear. The proposed Stabilization Fund will not give milk to the world's Hottentots. Nor can it pour out the billions that must be poured into occupied countries if they are to be restored as going economies. Nor can it solve the problem, which loomed huge after the last war, of collecting billions in reparations...
Teutonic Tower. In a by-line story distributed by North American Newspaper Alliance, Brita gave a chatty, uninhibited view of the electronic Tower of Babel which pumps Nazi propaganda all over the world...
...shown, this problem is enough to tax to the limit the minds and energies that would propose to solve it. Restraints on the free exchange of intelligence are all but universal in the world at war; calculated propaganda has become all but universal too. Toward the reduction of this Babel one step is now being taken: the end of the war in Europe will certainly mean the end of the Nazi Ministry for National Enlightenment and Propaganda, of short-wave broadcast from Zeesen, of the Auslands-Deutsche organization, of Signal, the Nazi picture magazine, and of the Wagnerian dwarf...