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Last week that policy was made public. Having promised the Jews a "homeland" and the Arabs an independent State in Palestine, the British in a White Paper as bland as Lord Runciman's apologia for the Czecho-Slovakia debacle, chose to interpret this to mean that the Jews should have about as much "homeland" as they have now achieved in Palestine, but that they should not be allowed to expand to a point of depriving the Arabs of their majority control in politics and land ownership. Jews fumed and charged that once more Great Britain had expediently bowed...
...three-hour test roamed the fields of science, literature, economics, English, history, in unusual fashion. Examinees were asked not to display their knowledge but to draw deductions from sets of given facts. In a test of their literary judgment, for example, they were given a poem to interpret, Wallace Stevens' Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock...
...however they interpret it, readers are not likely to miss the development in the rhythm and mood of the writing: the bobbing facetious note in the first passages; the clogged, heavy, stupefied quality that marks the middle section; the mood, half-exultation, half-sadness, on which it ends: "A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights...
...Chamberlain, visibly disturbed, attempted to soothe the Opposition by reading a telegram which he had received from General Franco, giving what the Prime Minister chose to interpret as "assurances" that Loyalist rights would be respected. When Mr. Chamberlain read a Franco passage saying that "Spain is not disposed to accept any foreign intervention which might injure her dignity or sovereignty," the Opposition laughed derisively and long. But the Government had the last laugh, defeating the censure motion...
Sven Cederstrom, of the Royal Swedish Army Ski Corps offered to interpret after Bermath's English and the interviewer's French because exhausted. Through him it was learned that Bermath's record run was made in 1938 when he reached a speed of 125 kilometres...