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Laurence B. Holland, teaching fellow in History and Literature, said, "Professor Matthiessen's death is as tremendous a loss as Harvard could have suffered. There could not have been as devoted a teacher or a more profound student of American culture. He was loyal both to his associates and to an unbelievable degree to his students...
...present time, a few countries are experimenting with what amounts to small scale integration. Holland and Belgium have such an arrangement, and Italy and France are discussing one. Europeans are constantly worried about what they are going to do when Marshall Plan aid stops. A European economic union now appears odious, but it may be the only long-run solution...
Officials of the United States of Indonesia promptly demanded that Westerling be sent to Jakarta, to be tried for "crimes perpetrated by him in Indonesia." Singapore has no extradition agreement with the U.S.I., and Westerling is a Dutch national. If he were deported to Holland, The Netherlands would have the responsibility of keeping him out of Indonesia. Westerling's fate was discussed at the highest levels in London, The Hague and Jakarta. Fearful of offending their partner in the Netherlands-Indonesian Union, the Dutch will probably advise the British to turn Westerling over to the U.S.I...
...American delegates will be accommodated in Belgian student dormitories along with the delegates from Canada. Denmark, England, France, Holland, Luxembourg, and Norway. The delegates will visit Belgian universities and representative Belgian industries in addition to the activities at the conference...
...purpose of the ten days of orientation is to prepare the students for what is to come in Europe and help them interpret what they see. In Holland, the students were warned last summer, people do not dance cheek to check. Some students were unduly surprised to find that some Europeans hated the Marshall Plan. In Italy, students were dismayed to find that because of the American reputation for cleanliness, the water was always shut off where they went...