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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...have removed the question of the everlasting European revisions of frontiers from the atmosphere of public discussion in Germany. . . . We have no territorial demands to make in Europe...
...revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound in 1,600 of British revenue to King George VI). And the taxpayer gets almost nothing for his money. In one state which charges taxes of $5.50 per head, 10? per head is spent on education, 8? on public health. Much of the rest goes to keep the maharaja well supplied with pearls, virgins, elephants and other luxuries. If taxation fails, there are different ways of raising money-one prince is said to have sold his 300 stepmothers for 30 rupees apiece...
...There are now 6,166 registered hospitals in the U. S., as compared to 6,128 a year ago. These hospitals hold more than one million beds. Over 70% of the total in crease in beds was due to expansion of public hospitals, which now total...
Harvard is probably completely unaware of this process of her evolution. Be that as it may, Harvard is most certainly not a peppy and spiritous land like the hills of Hanover; it is rather a lotus-land, the private domain of Indifference. Cantabridgians would shy in dismay from any public demonstration of simple school spirit. But secretly most of them admit that all is not well here, that there might be a more ideal attitude. And certainly they would not wish to see Dartmouth hide its spontaneous war-whoops under a hypocritical cloak of assumed indifference...