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...French and British public opinion -will not yet stand for open intervention. Instead Italy insisted on discussing recall of volunteers not at a three-power conference but before all 27 nations of the impotent Nonintervention Committee, including Italy's ally Germany. Britain and France were forced to agree. Lest this sound like too much of a blow to British prestige Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden addressed a Government rally at Llandudno, Wales...
...opinion of many Chinese, was the return to Nanking of the Soviet Ambassador and Military Attache. They recently flew by special chartered plane to Moscow, and Nanking last week hoped for "action" from the Soviet Union, feared the U. S. might hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China are not by any means the flower of the Mikado's legions, kept whistling loudly...
...part of Dick Harlow and the players with whom he has labored have been responsible for this great change, and it has become almost commonplace to bestow the credit where it belongs without any regard for the intensely hard fight the coaches have had these few years. Lest anyone think complacently about Harvard's success on the gridiron this year as something bound to come in the normal course of events, let him remember the spirit that prevailed at Soldiers Field three short years...
...Lest his listeners think that in advocating religion he was criticizing them, Dean Pound was quick to add that he has "never lost faith in the religious groundings of the younger generation." Urging them to hold fast to these ideas, he warned against "those fashionable philosophies of life" that would abandon religion...
...more than once to drop off into sheer disaster. It has to do with the now familiar theme of putting on a show, but the hopelessness of the predicaments into which the youthful producer breezes is amazingly original. Those dilemmas are also uproarious, except that there is grave danger lest the sympathetic souls in the audience become too busy feeling sorry to be able to laugh...