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These were the first North African pilgrims to make the Haj (pilgrimage) in four years. Because of the war, the French have hitherto banned the trip. The lifting of the ban by the Committee of National liberation is a shrewd gesture much appreciated by French North Africa's Moslems, who number...
...January the first, in the year 2000, mankind will be free to . . . rise from its knees and look about it for some other, and perhaps more rational, form of faith. I like also to think that ... in the great pale platitude of the meantime, there will be, as hitherto, a few . . . people likely to read ... the works of Lytton Strachey...
London also heard that the Russians, supremely anxious for an immediate invasion of western Europe, gracefully swallowed facts which they had hitherto refused to believe. The implication of this report was that Anglo-U.S. strategists had already scheduled western invasion about as soon as it could be effectively attempted...
...atrocities, massacres and executions will be sent back to the countries in which their abominable deeds were done in order that they may be judged and punished according to the laws of these liberated countries and of the free governments which will be erected therein. Let those who have hitherto not imbrued their hands with innocent blood beware, lest they join the ranks of the guilty, for most assuredly the three Allied powers will pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth. German criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical localization will be punished by joint decision...
...George W. Raiziss of Abbott Laboratories reported in Science that disodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate diamino-diphenylsulfone (short name: Diasone) is the best drug yet used to treat guinea pigs newly infected with tuberculosis. It is a sulfa drug which Professor Raiziss says is even better than Promin, another diaminodiphenylsulfone derivative, hitherto the best anti-t.b. drug. Three good points about Diasone: it is only slightly toxic, therefore can be used in fairly large quantities with safety; it is as good as sulfanilamide in curing streptococcus infections in mice; it is almost as good as sulfadiazine in curing type II pneumonia...