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...Easter Sunday, telegraph wires hummed with holiday messages. Suddenly something went blooey. Teletype messages began to arrive in jumbles like pied type. Short-wave radio to Europe, to ships at sea, was blotted out, stayed blotted for several hours. Wire photos arrived looking like surrealistic blobs. Cursing engineers pronounced it the worst disruption of service in the historyof long-distance telephone and radio communication...
...European peace pipe, whose coal had been kept fitfully glowing for a month while Sumner Welles made his reportorial rounds (see p. 14), had never been cooler than it was last week. On Easter Sunday in Rome Pope Pius XII not only spoke mournfully of "this critical moment when sorrowful things appear to the eyes of all," but foresaw "even more dreadful things ... for the future...
Fortunately the eleven-day Easter recess of Parliament was just about to begin -and that gave France a breather. After consulting President Lebrun, Premier Reynaud & Cabinet decided not to resign, to try over Easter to pacify partisan passions and negotiate a solid Chamber majority...
Acclaimed for its explanation of its policy toward the Russo-Finnish war (see col. 3), the British Government (and Parliament) prepared to go home for Easter. One question still weighed on Parliament's collective mind (and on the minds of lots of other people), so the Chamberlain Government briskly addressed itself to relieving the pressure. The question: Were the Allies wise to pursue their seven-month "Sitzkrieg...
There was a bitter cold northwest wind sweeping across the Yard yesterday morning--may be that partly accounted for the chilliness of the atmosphere inside the Memorial Chapel, where a spic and span Easter crowd listened to a sermon by Dr. Henry John Cody, President of the University of Toronto. But undoubtedly there was another contributing factor in the words of Dr. Cody himself. Exhorting his student hearers not to be "afraid of the high and noble adventure of life," he held up to them as an example of fearlessness the young men of Canada who have gone...