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...Prosecutor answered: "Hindu and Sikh and Moslem tolerated each other, insofar as they did so, not through love or virtue but because each community was aware that its rival did not possess the power to coerce it into a hated way of living. Neither the Rajputs, nor the Moguls, nor the British ever established in India a state whose police reached out to the ordering of people's daily lives. Now, with independence, with the possibility of modern states, each community saw behind the other the shadow of the policeman and the propagandist. The Indian communities rushed into violence...
This week, Harry Truman signed the Housing and Rent Act of 1947. Said he: "It is clear that, insofar as the Congress is concerned, it is this bill or no rent control at all." The bill; which continues rent controls to Feb. 29, 1948, will permit "voluntary" 15% rent increases if leases are signed which extend through...
Preference in selection of the new House members was given to prospective 1947-48 graduates insofar as possible, considering the number of vacancies at various prices and types of suites, Dean Watson said. Of necessity, this limited the room space open to members of other classes...
With the College-wide boycott now in effect five days, Swan stated that the embargo has been a definite success insofar as the members of the University are concerned. "However, an attempt will have to be made to reach the Cambridge citizenry outside of the College," he said. Since last Thursday, when the boycott was announced, the patronage of the Club 100 has been comprised almost entirely of this extra-university group...
...insofar as the "Klan" is concerned, I never belonged to the Klan, never made application for membership in the same, never donned a Robe, never took an OATH in the same...