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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 30 persons--a number of them Harvard students--gathered last night at the St. Benedict (Catholic) Conter on Arrow Street despite Archbishop Richard J. Cushing's day-old decree with-drawing the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Eucharist from "any Catholics who frequent" the Center or who". . . in any way take part in or assist its activities...
Civilian Control. The simple, 700-word occupation statute should have given the Germans a number of things to be grateful for. Along with the statute, the Western allies confirmed a previous agreement to stop most of the dismantling of German industrial plants, and to admit the West German state as a full-fledged partner in the Marshall Plan organization. Once the state comes into being, Military Government will end. Some occupation forces, however, will remain. The allies will retain certain key powers of control, to be vested in three civilian high commissioners. They will completely control "disarmament. . . demilitarization . . . related fields...
...unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking the law into his own hands). Before finally arriving at the right answer, Payne and his vigilante friends string up a number of their enemies to nearby trees...
...poet to illustrate it than bush-bearded, 42-year-old Englishman William Empson, who now lives by choice in Peiping. For years Empson's work has been admired by people who would put their minds on it, and either ignored or jeered at by a greater number who gave it a fast superficial reading. The first U.S. publication of his collected poems means that the first party may be making a little headway...
Whether Germany should have a strong or a weak central government is the dispute between the Social Democrats and the Christian Democratic party, just as it was among the occupying powers themselves. While the Socialists have argued for centralization, the Christian democrats, who have the same number of votes at Bonn, have fought for a weak, federal government. Since neither side will compromise its position, the split has deadlocked the convention's latest attempts to draft the constitution...