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This past week has brought editorial damnation of tutoring school practices which have taken root at Princeton in the last few years. Success promises to come rapidly in this latest campaign, with almost instant college approval and cooperation. The other programs are slower moving, but even the loudest rumblings of the "Princetonian," that king-pin of the impressive Nassau extra-curricular hierarchy, can't change things over night...
...other hand, he said, all murmurs must be assessed with the greatest of care. Most of them are unimportant and often only temporary, however, and sometimes the loudest murmurs are of the least importance...
There are more Baptists-10,000,000, black & white-in the U. S. than there are Protestants of any other persuasion, and they do not like the Roman Catholic Church. Last week Baptists were the quickest and loudest of protesters against President Roosevelt's Christmas Eve appointment of Myron C. Taylor as ambassador to visit the Pope. Technically Mr. Taylor is not Ambassador to the Vatican, for Congress has not created any such post. This particularly stirred the Baptists...
...Communist menace were in the air, he proclaimed: "In Germany 147 men have to live on one square kilometre-in Russia only nine. This may be borne for a time by superhuman effort, but not forever." When vilification of Britain was in order, he was among the loudest and most insistent, branding the enemy "a dark smudge off the Continent," "a heap of moneybags." "a rich parvenu wishing to play world policeman...
...Loudest protest of all was fired off in London by Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's Ambassador. He was instructed to say that "in case vital interests of Japan should be affected . . . Japan would be compelled to take appropriate counter-measures." This was tough talk from a country whose fondness for Germany is supposed to have been cooled by the Hitler-Stalin Deal. But Japan, threatened by an embargo of U. S. exports to her at the next session of the U. S. Congress, faced a tough spot...