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...Netherlands. The Nazis evidently intended to assimilate the country completely, blot out Dutch nationality. Industry is almost wholly under German control. State expenditures have almost trebled-to pay Germany's occupation costs and export extortions...
...dean and acting president. Despite his own training at Cornell (B.A. 1927) and Harvard (Ph. D. 1936), he is a devoted small-college man. He believes that institutions of Wesleyan's size (about 700 students in peacetime) supply a social education that the big university has "tended to blot out." Says he: "We must . . . provide a ferment in American society . . . creating a sound social leadership...
...began to pay off. News of the Navy's unexpected aerial and sea attack on Japan's Marcus Island base was announced in Washington while the attack was still under way. Then, at week's end, came further results. It was announced in Washington that, to blot out the prevalent "armchair war" attitude, Americans at home will get to see heretofore suppressed pictures showing the horrible side of war-the deprivation, danger and suffering the U.S. fighting man endures. One of the first such photos to be released was one to make Americans catch their breaths...
...Japs on Guadalcanal did not give in; they gave out. Said Captain Miles Browning, chief of staff to Admiral William F. Halsey: "It was not a definite surrender. Our flanking forces closed the pincers on the enemy and a blot-out took place. There was no more space for the Japs to occupy...
...Then the Blot rushed in, breathless as usual. Have you not heard, he screamed, those Stanley Steamers all blew up, why should we be different? And the Blot was right as usual, for the Meryman steamobile is no more...