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Other Harvard students finishing were seniors Margaret Waters in 3:04:48, Mike Smart in 3:12:30, Jane Hunnewell in 3:41:00 and Jane Bliss in 3:28:00. Two Winthrop House tutors finished: Page Chamberlain in 2:54:58 and Rodney Pearson...
...History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes and kindle with pale gleams the passions of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience." (Churchill on Chamberlain.) That can be no less true of our time than of others. What may have mattered most about these years is not how close the world came to self-destruction, but that it did not happen, that the individual's claim on survival took precedence over all the wilder forces...
...most dangerous moments of the Czechoslovak crisis last week, when Britain and France were mobilizing for war and Adolf Hitler was adamant in repeating that the German Army would "march" unless Prague yielded to all his demands, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain adr dressed the Empire and the U. S. by radio, declared Führer Hitler's demands "unreasonable." The next day, at a time of even greater tension he appealed to the Italian Premier Benito Mussolini to use his good offices with the Führer...
...House of Commons, Neville Chamberlain seemed to be trending toward a declaration of war, when suddenly the Prime Minister began to tell how he had sent a letter to Il Duce urging him to contact the Führer...
Precisely at this moment, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon handed the Prime Minister a message just received from the Führer, and Neville Chamberlain, after reading it, went on with emotion in his voice...