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...host to two more distinguished foreign visitors who came to talk of the post-war world: suave General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government-in-Exile. and grey, careful William Lyon Mackenzie King, Premier of Canada. (Canada and the U.S., in an exchange of notes last week, agreed to post-war attempts to reduce tariffs and eliminate other trade barriers...
...FOURTH MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Six mystery novellas by such practiced hands as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mignon Eberhart, Hugh Pentecost, and one newcomer, Dana Lyon, who turns in the best item, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead. An omnibus book that is right up to its predecessors in quality and quantity...
...Laval could rally the French to fight Allied troops was a problem for the oily little lawyer to figure out for himself. Last week Jacques Doriot, another collaborator of Laval's soiled stripe, got clubbed in Paris. Near Lyon, 5,000 peasants and townspeople gathered for the funeral of British aviators who crashed returning from Italy...
...England family, Wilder grew up in China (his father was U.S. Consul General at Hong Kong and Shanghai) and California. Even at Yale, from which he graduated in 1920, Wilder gave promise of being one of the coming U.S. literary lights, attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps and other pundits. A scholarly bachelor with a high, nervous voice, who knows half a dozen languages, speaks in a stumbling rush when excited, he went on teaching at Lawrenceville School and the University of Chicago long after he became famous. Most traditional and cloistered of novelists, he suddenly turned...
...Pierre Laval's Mobile Guards and French Legion storm troopers had fired rifles and machine-gun volleys, hurled hand grenades into crowds of French demonstrators at Lyon and Ambérieu. Fifty-five deaths (which Vichy denied) were reported...