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...After this war, if I say 'Hello chappie, I'm for the U.S.A.,' don't think I'm referring to New York or don't think my kit is packed for any other part of Uncle Sam's domain...
Spring came to southeastern Europe last week. Adolf Hitler could have put a canoe into a tiny stream in the Black Forest and followed the last chunks of ice down a Danube swollen by the 300 tributaries which interlace his new domain. The sights would be gruesome or inspiring, depending on where he stopped...
...Preanger Hotel in the center of the city, he was shocked and surprised to see armed Dutch soldiers hustling German guests and hotel staff members off to concentration camps. The same thing was going on in all the 3,000-odd islands of Hein ter Poorten's domain. At the seaports, soldiers had seized every German ship, while others grabbed their officers and crews ashore and confiscated bombs (intended to blow up their ships) before there was a chance td use them.* Thus Saito-san saw how quickly Ter Poorten could move...
Four months ago, Mohammed Shah's father, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi, abdicated, leaving his handsome, brilliant son a turbulent domain of seething tribes and conflicts which had been spiked together for 16 years mainly by the old Shah's iron will. He also left his son two potent guests who had just invaded Iran: the British and Russian Armies...
Surprising as this British move seems today, the passage of such a law would have seemed even more surprising to men of earlier generations-for exactly opposite reasons. For centuries Christianity and education went hand in hand. Throughout the Middle Ages education was so exclusively the domain of the church that any prisoner who could read was recognized as a cleric (clerk) and could get his case transferred to the more lenient ecclesiastical courts. Every great university in Britain and the U.S. was founded with strong religious motives, largely to educate ministers. And until the last century the idea...