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Father Silva's first boatload will sail from Genoa next month. Soon it will be followed by 3,000 Poles, members of General Anders' army. By the time Father Silva has opened his Spanish office, he hopes to be sending 5,000 emigrants a month from Europe, all in Argentine ships...
...work well done on Canadian farms and in Canadian forests, some German prisoners of war will be allowed to stay in Canada. So the Government decided last week. When the last boatload of some 2,000 P.W.s leaves Halifax for Britain this week, an estimated 200 will be left behind to be freed and eventually placed in jobs. The P.W.s who stay must speak English, be anti-Nazi, unmarried and under 35. And they must have been recommended and requested by the Canadian employer for whom they worked...
Behind these men, a boatload or so of other talent makes seating on next spring's first boat unpredictable. Both Bob Stone and Stu Clark, from the '42 Freshman crew, are back from service and bidding strong for the Varsity. Frank Cunningham, once of the '42 150's, and Sam Davis, from the combination crew of the same year, were also on the river this fall...
...Estonians and a Finn who had braved the ocean in three tiny sloops to escape German and Russian oppression (TIME, Oct. 7) got word in Miami last week of their fate. Since they had no visas of any kind, those in the first boatload were told that the gates of the U.S. were shut. The rest could hope for no better. Their alternatives: to go back home or settle in South America...
When the last boatload of valiant fugitives pushed off from the beach at Dunkirk, they left, among the prone bodies, the carcasses of horses, the discarded rifles and smashed cannons, a historical deposit undistinguishable from the sands that the tide washed in & out. It was the remains of the faded Victorian Age, whose shibboleths of family security, personal freedom, humanity, honor, greatness of purpose, faith, liberalism and the intangible called decency had so long stood between civilized society and those forces within itself which are always at war with it. At one stride, a new age, The Age of Violence...