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Over France today is the spectre of another march on Paris, another siege, another occupation. Worse still, there is peril from the air. But a "peace" worse than Versailles? Excusable, under any circumstances? Practical? Suddenly Vag decided to brush up on his background facts, and resolved to go to Harvard 6 this noon to hear Donald C. McKay on "Bismarck and the Unification of Germany...
...ship Carica Milica (6,371 tons) sinking not far away, also mined. Some hours later, in the same vicinity, down went the British Black hill, Torchbearer, Wigmore; the Swedish B. O. Borjesson, the Italian Grazia (the war's first casualty under Mussolini's flag). This free floating peril in the North Sea for neutrals as well as combatants, had an immediate effect on Dutch shipping. At Lisbon 1,000 passengers, aboard the liners Oranje, Jan Pieterszoon Coen and Johan De Witt, disembarked to continue their journeys by other means...
...same direction of security and neutrality. And from Paris perceptive Foreign Editor Jules Sauerwein of Paris-Soir warned: "It is toward these regions of Europe that onlookers must turn during the coming weeks. They will see if these nations can forget their rivalries and grudges in the common peril." No one would be happier to forget grudges than Carol II, but none knew better than he how ingrained Balkan grudges are. Moreover, he knew that if there was to be any general grudge-settling before federation was accomplished, he would probably be called upon to give up a part...
...brother, Earl (TIME, July 3), James Monroe Smith was nowhere in sight, someone having seen to it that he had plenty of time to vanish after he resigned. By the week-end the man whom L. S. U. students publicly derided as JIMMY THE STOOGE had become a peril to the whole post-Huey machine in Louisiana, and particularly to Earl Long's hopes of being elected Governor in his own right next year...
...military war. . . . If we make economic war, that conclusion is inevitable. . . . If we believe we can defend this hemisphere, then the whole argument for now waging economic war weakens." He would not even make war-selling a crime, but an affair strictly at the seller's peril. This policy could be achieved by simply repealing the present Neutrality Act, enacting nothing new, putting U. S. exporters on notice by simple executive warning as occasion may arise...