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...Wilson Observatory in California is a seismological station so sensitive that trucks rumbling up the observatory road make tremors on the recording drums. Once a series of jiggles was traced to a child pounding a plank 400 yards away from the station. U. S. seismologists are not much disconcerted however. They have learned that it is easy to distinguish false jiggles because the record made by a real earthquake has a characteristic contour...
Although Führer Adolf Hitler's main plank is return of all German minorities to the Reich fold, his passiveness toward the South Tyroleans has contrasted with his agitation for the Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia. To South-Tyrolean Anschluss agitation the Führer has lately turned a cold shoulder, has declared Italy's present frontiers inviolable, has let the word be passed around that Ally Mussolini should not be embarrassed by Nazi agitation for a German Tyrol...
With a new plank stating the Union's refusal to take part in a war on foreign soil, the Vassar peace platform was revised by the H.S.U. in their general meeting last night in Lowell House Common Room...
...addition to the peace proposal provided for definite action against sweeping the United States into a foreign war, and although Robert E. Lane '38 supported the plank as a new first point of the platform, it was relegated to second position...
Among other measures, the H.S.U. supported the peace demonstration to the tune of 49-5, and rejected the Ludlow amendment, 40-24. These were points five and six respectively. They expressed their opposition to a withdrawal of troops in China, point four. and supported the third plank providing for abolition of the M-day and of the sky-rocketing military budget...