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...latest internee had studied at the University of Munich until 1936, and was known to profess Nazi sympathies in his early years in this country. It is not known, however, whether his opinions have changed since the advent...
Mathematicians have long been haunted by a paradox: although most U.S. citizens profess to dread the study of mathematics, they are suckers for mathematical puzzles, made a best-seller of Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million. The mathematicians' conclusion: the trouble is not with mathematics but with the way it is taught. Most math teachers emphasize computation to the point of drudgery. A prime example (from an old U.S. arithmetic textbook - Greenleaf 's) : "Required the contents of the earth, supposing its circumference to be 25,000 miles. Ans. 263,858,149,120.06886875 cubic miles...
...Italy, the collapse in France, the Red horror in Spain, now happily crushed but at fearful cost, for the present plight of England, for Hitler's regime in Germany as a counteroffensive and for the economic misery, confusion and breakdown in our own country. Hitlerism, which you profess to hate, was created as a defense mechanism against your hidden bosses...
...speakers were non-Catholics. Many Catholic conservatives, including some in his new archdiocese, have warred on C.I.O. -but he has backed it from its birth. Most Catholic prelates in the U. S. are isolationists-but Emmet Lucey says: "Isolation is a spiritual, cultural and industrial impossibility. To profess neutrality in the face of international crime is to deny the existence of a moral order. Unprovoked aggression in starting a war and barbaric savagery in conducting it constitute murder and injustice. These do not admit of neutrality." Young for an archbishop (he was 50 last fortnight), Emmet Lucey's appointment...
...things which the sleepy British intelligence service does profess to know is that Germany has vast stores of ammunition, explosives and other vital material tucked away in her wooded hills. Last week the R. A. F. got its orders to go after those stores ruthlessly...