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When Minister Bevin announced last month that the Group's lay evangelists would not be exempted from military service, there was a great hubbub. To Laborite Bevin's defense sprang Crusader-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, Oxford University's Member in Parliament. To Oxonian Herbert the Oxford Group is a bee in the bustle. It riles him to think that Frank Buchman and his brash, eupeptic fishers among the up-&-outs* have the nerve to link themselves implicitly with the great Oxford Movements led by John Wesley and Cardinal Newman...
Five minutes later this cheery greeting from a German radio station in Occupied France was answered with a polite Oxonian "Thank you." Ended, apparently, were months of dickering between World War II's big belligerents for the exchange of some 3,000 war prisoners (excluding men able to fight). For two days last week two shiploads of military (wounded) and civilian (interned) German prisoners were held up at Newhaven as rumors flew thick & fast that scheduled sailings had been delayed because Adolf Hitler demanded the return of Rudolf Hess, who went A.W.O.L., so that he could clap him into...
...orator, ex-Oxonian Frank Aydelotte presented the President (through General Watson as proxy) for his degree. Lord Halifax read his diploma: ". . . Whereas Franklin Delano Roosevelt . . . has at all times been in the fight for peace, justice and freedom. . . ." General Watson read Franklin Roosevelt's reply...
...evening in April 1939 Britons fiddling with their radio dials were startled to hear an anonymous British voice speaking over German airwaves. Said he, in clipped Oxonian accents: "To some I may seem a traitor-but hear...
Before Nazi bombing began to interfere with England's weekends and England's sleep, the Nazi propagandist that London dubbed "Lord Haw-Haw" caught many a listening British ear. Nightly from Germany, in accents more Oxonian than the Isis, he sneered at Britain's martial aims, deplored the bucktoothed poverty of the British populace, condemned Britain's leaders as a bunch of pumpkin heads. His sneers hit close enough home to rate his being listed as Britain's most annoying invisible mosquito. Who was he? It was a problem that baffled the easily bored British...