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...went on to relate that for three consecutive days during the battle of France, a large Paris newspaper said that the Nazis had thrown in their last division. Living in Paris until two days before the German occupation, he saw first-hand how censorship kept the facts from the people...
...Mexico's Decisive Summer" proves, among other things, that Rufus Mathewson '41 has a first-hand acquaintance with that country and her politics. David Hennett '42 adds another to the long series of post-mortems on Franco currently in evidence. John Holabird's dynamic drawings are notably absent, but promised for next issue
...acted as Far Eastern diplomat for both his church and the U. S. Army. Last week Bishop Tucker hastily summoned Bishops Reifsnider, Binsted and Nichols to Manhattan for consultation, dispatched the two former to Japan for first-hand news, kept Bishop Nichols in the U. S. for advice as the situation develops. Meanwhile he kept mum. Judging from the Japanese Episcopal Church's last two clashes with the Government, the outlook was none too bright. Last year the president of Episcopal St. Paul's University, Tokyo, was forced to resign because, in reading the hallowed Imperial rescript...
...added work in the social sciences, in sociology, economics, and political theory. took the form of informal colloquies addressed by preachers known to have had first-hand experience in these fields in their parish work...
Last week, following up the sell-out achieved by his collected messages to his chief while Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson authored another White Paper. It was a 12,000-word first-hand study of Hitler, the Nazis and the Germans, written as his final report to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. Perceptive, witty and compassionate as a Jane Austen novel or a Lytton Strachey biography, it steered hard away from the old 1914 concept of the Germans as Huns or their ruler as The Beast of Berlin. Instead, it described them as understandable dupes and Hitler as a powerful...