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While Londoners raged at a distance, the people of Alexandria flew into a state of British calm. Said an A.P. dispatch from there: "Britons in Alexandria . . . are watching the enemy moves without alarm. Alexandrians dance on and are well supplied with food and drink...
Smallness v. Sincerity. Outstanding churchmen were notably chary last week about expressing clear-cut opinions on the Supreme Court decision. But the press was outspoken. Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "If a small sect can be denied its constitutional rights, the way is open to deny them to other sects." Said the New York Times: "Jehovah's Witnesses suffer because they are a small and, to many, an obnoxious sect. The minorities whose civil rights are threatened are always small and, to many, obnoxious. . . . Yet their treatment is the test, and will always be the test...
...older Scouts and ex-Scouts who have outgrown dispatch and collection services, there is great demand from recruiting officers. Frank Knox wants the Sea Scouts to sign up for the Navy. Paul McNutt has asked them not to forget the Merchant Marine. Lieut. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold says that the newest Scout project of Air Scouts (15 years and older) who will receive ground and flight background training is "great news to the Army Air Corps...
...must communicate to you [Vichy Radio] a dispatch of the greatest importance. M. Pierre Laval has just arrived by parachute in a small village in Massachusetts. M. Laval apparently bears interesting proposals which he will not discuss with anyone except authorized representatives of the Separatist French Movement in America. . . . According to the very latest news, M. Laval is not able to find the representative of the suppressed French minorities because he is in Ireland with the American Expeditionary Force." Other developments...
Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Richard L. Stokes: "I have seen things on this trip that would inspire and electrify the country, but everything inspirational that I have written was cut out by the censors...