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...last week. The House of Assembly voted to investigate the possibilities of making the islands the New Geneva of the postwar world, where international conferences could be held in an atmosphere remote from national strife. Author of the suggestion was Legislative Councilor F. Goodwin Gosling, who also submitted the idea to Britain...
Already famous in a profession he entered only seven years ago, Mike Sullivan is Cambridge's most loved and also perhaps most hated politician. In 1935, a few of his friends asked him to run for City Councilor. Mickey accepted and won. He first rose to national fame by declaring that Cambridge would be a better place and its citizens purer if Lenin's name were scratched out of every book in the City limits. Mickey fought hard for this proposal and even though he lost, he is still gunning for "those radicals...
Campaign by Diplomacy. In 1937 the second China war began and Mr. Matsuoka was made Cabinet advisory councilor in Prince Fumimaro Konoye's first Premiership. In March 1939 he again made one of his sudden resignations en route to better things, and reappeared in July 1940 as Foreign Minister. As an ardent expansionist and strong supporter of the Prince's plan for totalitarian one-party rule, he was Prince Konoye's choice...
...mountainside in Kwangtung Province last week a Japanese naval plane crashed, killing bull-necked Admiral Baron Mineo Osumi, 64, Japan's Chief War Councilor. Known in Japan as a liberal influence second only to the late Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Admiral Osumi was nevertheless also a stout advocate of the Japanese Navy's southward urge to empire. At week's end Chungking said that the plane had been shot down by guerrilla machine gunners, that the wreckage had yielded papers showing that Admiral Osumi was flying toward Hainan Island, off the south China coast, there...
Stating that he had been consulted on fields ranging from teaching to movie production, John L. Steele, Student Councilor in charge of Vocational Information at Phillips Brooks House, submitted a semi-annual report at the Monthly P.B.H. Cabinet meeting last night...