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Secretary Stettinius last week let newsmen inspect the penthouse where he and his Big Power colleagues called the tune for the San Francisco conference. The apartment, atop the Fairmont Hotel, had been lent to Mr. Stettinius by wealthy Mrs. James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
...John Forsdyke, Director of the British Museum, and Dr. Henry Thomas. Keeper of Printed Books in the Museum, visited the University yesterday to inspect the Harvard libraries and mecums...
Major General Archer Lerch, USA, Provost General of the United States and National Director of the Civil Affairs Training School, will inspect the local units of that organization on Tuesday. Arriving in the morning from Washington, he will be greeted by Dean Buck and President Conant...
...Chambers. We got out to inspect the bathhouses. Said Kudriavtsev without emotion: "They came here first for a shower. Then the Germans said: 'Now you have had your wash. Go in there.' " He led us into one of four gas chambers. It was a solid grey concrete room, about 20 ft. square and 7 ft. high. A single large steel door sealed the entrance hermetically. There were three apertures, two for the pipes which brought in the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants...
Last week the cautious British judged that war-scarred Cyrenaica had sufficiently settled down for His Eminence's return. For the British it would be only a slightly nerve-wearing three-week junket, during which El Senussi would inspect British reconstruction in his former homeland. But for the eminent exile it was a triumph, or a preview of triumph, done in a style almost worth "waiting 20 years...