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...King Leopold's dilemma was acute. As a constitutional monarch, he could not flout the advice of Belgium's Premier, unless he could replace him with a less hostile Premier. But any Premier and Cabinet that favored the King's return could be fairly sure of a resounding no-confidence vote in Belgium's Parliament. To St. Wolfgang the King urgently summoned several leading Belgians for talks. Reports that Leopold would appoint prewar Premier Paul van Zeeland or Lieut. General Ganshof van der Meersh, a Resistance leader, as Premier were met by Brussels trade unions with...
...This flout in the face of fashion was, of course, made by a doctor: Dr. Milton Plotz of Brooklyn's Long Island College of Medicine. In the current American Journal of Diseases of Children he reports the case of a mother with 1) upswept hair and 2)a baby which had had eczema for all but the first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch...
...marks ($200) with the alternative of six months in jail. Friedel Souvignier wept, the others protested. The captain was polite but unmoved. He explained to newsmen that he wanted to set an example of severity. This is the way all U.S. Army courts will deal with those Germans who flout its military laws...
Many an honest U.S. newspaperman was outraged last week by flashy, pompous New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, whose hatred for Franklin Roosevelt* and all his works sometimes leads him to flout the standards of his own profession. O'Donnell wrote, as a plain statement of fact, that contraceptives and prophylactic equipment were to become Government Issue for the WAACs...
...themselves and a blow against secret diplomacy. Neither General Giraud, whose authority in North Africa had been recognized by the U.S. and Great Britain while De Gaulle fretted in London, nor U.S. Minister Robert D. Murphy, who has a distaste for both De Gaulle and De Gaullism, dared to flout their will...