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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ridz, and his landlord friends, is emerging from obscurity. The question of the former provinces of eastern Poland is deeply involved with the desire of these feudalistic landowners to recapture their vast plantations in the east together with the masses of semi-enserfed labor, much of it of Russian origin, to work them. In spite of the huge plebiscite vote of the eastern provinces in 1939 to adhere to Russia after the fall of Poland, the Polish nobles in exile have brought great pressure to bear upon General Sikorski which has resulted in the current lack of harmony in Polish...
While the War Department says that the Negro has the respect of his fellow while soldier, race prejudice continues in the Army, principally from men of Southern origin. Australians, encountering the American Negro for the first time, met him on equal ground an said, "We were told by white American soldiers that all Negroes are cannibals, illiterates, savages, and that they will rape our women. We were told that all Negroes were ragged and diseased." The English, too, were surprised at the racial prejudices in the American Expeditionary Force, and from pub to Parliament have criticized this "American...
...true that Lend-Lease sent goods to Bermuda against Bermuda's wishes, shipped beer and powder puffs as war supplies? Wrong, said Mr. Stettinius: the U.S. has no Lend-Lease dealings with Bermuda, never shipped a can of beer or a powder puff. (Possible origin of the rumor: to fill empty space on a Lend-Lease ship to North Africa, the Government sent some rayon stockings, sold them for cash, used the francs to buy hemp and cork...
...church during Communion service. Flicking through catalogue cards in the New York Public Library four years ago, she came upon Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita. For no special reason she took out this 300-page commentary on India's famous religious and philosophic poem, whose origin is lost in history. She read how "the lower in us must learn to exist for the higher in order that the higher also may in us consciously exist for the lower, to draw it nearer to its own altitudes." Fascinated, she read on until the guards closed the library...
...letter to the CRIMSON last week, Henry A. Clark '74, one of the founding fathers, reminisced that The Magenta was the real origin of the CRIMSON. But "after two volumes were published, the President of the University informed us that magenta was not the College color, but crimson, and the publication after that information was entitled the CRIMSON. . . . We were without money or a designated place for its edition, and the undertaking was a venturesome one. . . . The last visit that I made to the University was in 1936 at the Tercentenary. . . . I was 93 years old on January...