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...with the decision. Lloyd McBride, president of the United Steelworkers of America, complained that the President should have used lower quotas rather than higher tariffs to block imports. Said he: "Where tariffs are substituted for quotas, it never works." Adolph Lena, chairman of Al Tech Specialty Steel Co. in Dunkirk, N.Y., and an industry spokesman, called the measures "wholly inadequate...
...Germany, for cash and for advancement of Soviet political aims. The two major "revelations" in the first installment of the diaries published by Stern are that Hitler approved Deputy Chancellor Hess's 1941 trip to Britain to propose a treaty and that he let the British escape at Dunkirk in hopes of persuading them to make a separate peace. Both claims have been forcefully challenged by historians, who noted that on the very day that Hess arrived to propose a German-British pact, Hitler's Luftwaffe planes bombed London's Houses of Parliament. The revisionist versions...
According to Stern, one volume is devoted to Hitler's account of the 1941 secret mission by his deputy Rudolf Hess to Britain to try to persuade the British to sign a peace agreement. Other entries deal with the 1940 British retreat at Dunkirk and the amorous activities of Chief Propagandist Josef Goebbels...
...first round of the NCAA tournament that will determine the best collegiate squad in the nation. The chance to witness what may be the first steps in Harvard's run to that title should create a rush to buy tickets rivaled only by the evacuation at Dunkirk. We urge Athletic Director John P. Reardon '60 to be prepared and to respond with a uniform policy for ticket distribution...
Others ridicule the notion of giving such high priority to the preservation of tenure in the academic world when the area surrounding the ivory tower is experiencing an economic Dunkirk. Nothing that Michigan is being forced to release several prisoners because the state cannot afford to maintain its penitentiaries. Peter Fletcher, a member of the board of trustees, says. "It's difficult to tell the tax-payers we can't lay off tenured faculty." Fletcher calls the protest over "firing" faculty members "histrionic games," explaining. "You're just laying off people as in other industries...