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...British at this point was well-meaning but jinx-bearing Major Kermit Roosevelt, who bobbed up in Cairo. The 26th U. S. President's second son joined the British Army in October 1939. The following February he resigned to lead "a modern crusade" to Finland, but the Finnish War ended too soon. Back with the British Army again last spring, promoted from second lieutenant to major, he went to Narvik, was there long enough to be driven out. He planned to go to France, but France collapsed before he got there. Arriving in Egypt by way of Cape Town...
...take Christianity to millions of other Buddhists. The Nazi Blitzkrieg last spring cut off funds from Norway and Denmark which have long financed Missionary Reichelt. But his work will go on. U. S. Lutherans have rallied to his support, as they have to 37 other orphaned Norwegian, German, Finnish and Danish missions...
After conducting his course in housing research at M.I.T. for the next few months, Alvar Aalto, well-known Finnish architect, will return to his native land to aid in the reconstruction of Finland...
...much safe conduct Hitler might be expected to pledge* was suggested last week as the U. S. Army transport American Legion cleared from the Finnish port of Petsamo for Manhattan. Aboard were Crown Princess Martha of Norway and her three children, bound for the haven of the U. S. at the invitation of Mr. Roosevelt; Minister to Norway Mrs. Florence J. Harriman; nearly 1,000 fleeing U. S. citizens. Said Berlin ominously last week: "The Reich Government must . . . disclaim responsibility should any damages be incurred by the ship. The responsibility must be borne solely by the United States Government...
Refugees not from their own government but from the unscholarly din of European war are Britain's world-famed Bertrand Russell (soon to become a U. S. citizen); Ivor Armstrong Richards, now working on Basic English at Harvard; Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen...