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...last Fascist police went into action. All street sales of Osservatore Romano outside the Vatican were prohibited. In Vatican City a newsstand was set up, guarded by agents of the Holy See. Guards were stationed inside the Santa Anna Gate, along the dead-end street which leads to the Osservatore Romano office. Last week's print order dropped to 35,000 copies, and half of these were stacked in the plant, undelivered...
...that tell the whole fate and meaning of a nation. The Lohrkes' regretful opinion: that England is at once dying, dead and badly in need of burial. They offer some somber and eloquent notes: on the deep feudal loyalty of the rural Englishman like that of a dog to his master; on the fungoid passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their...
...Private Economy is Not at a Dead-End. . . . The persistent emphasis of this Committee on the necessity for a free, creative, and expanding life rests upon the conviction that it is the only kind of economic system under which a people has a decent chance to realize a sustained high standard of living. Our economy of free enterprise may not always have distributed justly the relative abundance it has created, but the politically dominated economies have created no abundance to distribute...
...from their stations on North Sea patrol raced a British cruiser and five destroyers. The destroyer Intrepid halted the Altmark, but while Captain Philip Louis Vian of the senior destroyer Cossack had words with the Norwegian gunboat's commander, the Altmark slid into Joesing Fjord, a deep, narrow, dead-end harbor five miles long. Another Norwegian gunboat appeared, joining the first to bar the fjord to the British...
Frederick Doell of the German Consulate climbed the subway steps into the chill, clear Brooklyn afternoon, trudged eight blocks to a quiet, dead-end street, turned off at the second house in a row of five brick-and-frame cottages...