Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a peremptory cable from the master of a U.S. freighter: "Was my entry Shanghai legal or illegal: if illegal, I request notice. If legal, insist upon suitable protection." The freighter Sir John Franklin was the second to be fired on in the past two weeks, while trying to run the Nationalist blockade into Chinese Communist ports...
Last Post. Last week, flying the ensigns of both France and Britain, H.M.S. Implacable put out to sea for the last time. Escorted by the British destroyer Finisterre and the sloop Redpole, and loaded with 150 tons of carefully secured ballast, she was towed out of Portsmouth Harbor, past the moored Victory; 28 miles out, she was cast adrift. Her escorts' colors fluttered to half-mast, a guard of bluejackets aboard the Finisterre presented arms, and the bugler sounded last post. Then, at a signal from Rear Admiral Sir Algernon Willis, a charge of cordite blew the Implacable...
...past four editorials in this series it has been shown how the rules of the Dean's Office for regulating student activities have been formulated to meet certain problems which have annoyed or embarrassed the Dean's Office. These problems have been: 1) post-war political tensions, 2) bad debts, 3) increased concern for public relations, and 4) Radcliffe-Harvard relations...
Today the association is especially concerned with the parking and traffic situations in Harvard Square. For the past few years the group has attempted to secure land adjacent to the Square for parking facilities. Lack of adequate space has developed because commuters to Boston leave their cars in the Square for the day and use the subway to travel into town...
Fletcher Cooke discussed the achievement of self-government in large portions of Asia and Africa, the present and past colonial policy of Great Britain, and aspects of the UN decisions on trusteeships and non-self-governing colonies...