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Revolutionary for its times was Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Only five years previously the Holy See had itself forbidden Canada's Catholics to join the Knights of Labor (forerunner of the A.F. of L.), and it took the prompt and vigorous intervention of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore to keep the Vatican from extending the ban to U.S. Catholics. In 1887 Dr. Edward McGlynn, pastor of Manhattan's biggest Catholic parish, had been excommunicated for supporting Henry George's single-tax proposals.* And ten years after Rerum Novamm's publication...
...effect of the Finland report was to bring from both Helsinki and Berlin prompt denials that more German troops were in Finland than those authorized by last year's agreement to cross Finland on their way to Norway. Joseph Stalin, disturbed by growing pro-Axis sentiment in Finland, doubtless sought to serve notice that he still kept an eye on that country...
From Berlin there were prompt reports that General Tsolakoglou's new Government would be "welcomed." But prominent Greek Orthodox clergymen refused to swear in Tsolakoglou, and he finally took his oath before a lowly priest...
This appeasement feeler got a prompt negative response from both Britain and the U.S. In Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull said plainly that U.S.-Japanese relations would get no better so long as Japan pursued her present foreign policy. From Singapore, U.S.-made, Australian-manned bombing planes roared 100 miles to sea to meet a second batch of men and machines to reinforce that vital British fortress. Said Major General Lionel Vivian Bond, Commander of the British land forces in Malaya: "The United States Fleet is the most powerful factor deterring the activity of an enemy of Britain...
Ripe in years, withered, but impeccably preserved in the traditions of the late George Apley, the Boston Evening Transcript this week hovered near death's door. Last hope was that Bostonians could offer some "prompt, sound alternative" to death. Publisher Richard N. Johnson suggested a last-minute miracle-public subscription by 1,000 citizens of $500 each. Failing this, he announced, the issue of April 30 would be the last...