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...young (36), slim-legged, personable French tenor, Georges Cathelat, a friend of old (77) Maeterlinck who joined the Opera Comique in 1931. Today France's best Pelleas, Cathelat was released from his wartime job in the censor's office at the behest of U. S. Ambassador Bullitt...
Setting the pace in the University Boxing Championships held last night in the Indoor Athletic Building J. M. Bullitt, promising young Yardling Boxer, in the 135 pound class, cooled his opponent, N. De Palma, OcC. in 33 seconds of the third round...
...Hard-working Ambassador William Bullitt got off the transatlantic Clipper at Baltimore but, unlike returning Ambassadors Kennedy and Davies, did not come out swinging for the third term. He rushed to the State Department, conferred with Secretary Hull, stopped at the White House. To reporters he would say only that he had 50 to 75 things to discuss with officials, made some inconsequential remarks look more important by making them off the record...
...couple of hours before Ambassador Bullitt landed, President Roosevelt an nounced that Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles would "proceed shortly to Europe to visit Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain." The reason: "This visit is solely for the purpose of advising the President and the Secretary of State as to present conditions in Europe. Mr. Welles will, of course, be authorized to make no proposals or commitments...
...this war in jig-time. Director of this campaign, says he, is Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser of the Foreign Office; among its chief agents are Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington. Their U. S. victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James Conant and Yale's Charles Seymour. For censorship and propaganda, says Mr. Sargent, Britain last year spent at least...