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Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...
...chapter in Lane's book, however, is his detailed reconstruction of the tragic 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, a story full of confusion at the time, but one that in his telling becomes pathetically plain. On July 29, 1944, a Moscow broadcast urged Warsaw to revolt to hasten the entry of Russian troops, then only ten kilometers away. The underground Polish army, led by General Bor, went into action on Aug. 1. The next day it had two-thirds of Warsaw under control. As the Nazis hit back with savage plane attacks, Polish emigré leaders begged...
Pointing out that the book was written primarily for medical men, although it has attained best-seller status, Zimmerman declared that "its pseudo-sociology backed by unrelated statistics will hasten and implement the coming crisis in family behavior. Whether we should welcome this quick arrival or wish for delay is something only time can answer...
...campaign, the aggressively Protestant Christian Century editorialized this week: "The Knights of Columbus are to be applauded for having 'hired a hall' in the advertising columns and there submitting the claims of their church to the test of the open forum. If Protestantism is wise, it will hasten to subject its faith to the same scrutiny...
...Spain is a festering sore on the conscience of the Western powers." So writes Emmet John Hughes in the best-informed book* yet published on post-civil-war Spain. The present U.S. attitude toward Franco, says Author Hughes, "can only hasten the likelihood of civil war and facilitate the rapid growth of Communism in Spain. . . . The Western democracies have failed to evolve and express a clear, purposeful policy that would free Spain's democratic forces from the deadly Fascist-Communist cross fire in which they have been placed...