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Died. Leo Borchard, 53, Russian-born conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who fell from Nazi favor in 1937 when he refused to conduct the Nazi anthem, Horst Wessel, then was high in Allied favor after the fall of Berlin; shot by U.S. sentries when the British staff car in which he was riding failed to stop at their command, 35 minutes past curfew; in Berlin...
...School has 24 full-time teachers for its total of 380 students (Harvard has 31 for 1,400 students). Yale law students get individual instruction in small classes, have as teachers such topnotchers as Arthur Linton Corbin, Edwin Borchard, James Grafton Rogers (until recently they also had William Orville Douglas, now a Supreme Court Justice, and Thurman Arnold, now Assistant U. S. Attorney General). Average age of Yale's faculty is 43, of Harvard...
...present neutrality act is based on the assumption "that our neutral trade and our neutrality got us into the last war," Borchard asserted. "But it was not trade that got us in. It was sheer unneutrality--the official favoring of on side against the other...
Remarking that President Roosevelt's "unexpected disparagement of neutrality" and endorsement of sanctions "shocked the country," Edwin M. Borchard, professor at the Yale Law School, expressed roughly similar views...
Roosevelt's scheme to quarantine aggressors, according to Borchard's paper, embodies a collectivist principle which so far has resulted only in "failure and humiliation...