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January 17--"Some Aspects of American Constitutional Law." Professor T. R. Powell...
...Lindy." In charge of mine research for the Admiralty was put First Lord Winston Churchill's inventor-friend, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Oxford professor, scientist, aviator, director of the R. A. F.'s Physical Laboratory in World War I. One mine brought in for "Lindy's" inspection was retrieved by a brave diver who went to the bottom alone to get it. Report was that the triggers of the new mines were found to be so sensitive they responded to sound waves as well as magnetism...
Such hostility, the Premier continued, was "incompatible" with the Finnish-Russian non-aggression pact. Therefore: "The Soviet Government deems itself compelled to state that from this date it considers itself free from the obligations undertaken under the non-aggression pact concluded between the U. S. S. R. and Finland and systematically violated by the Government of Finland. Accept, Mr. Minister, assurances of my perfect respect." Meanwhile, three new border incidents were reported exclusively by the Red Army...
...hours before Soviet bombers started laying the eggs of a new war in Finland (see p. 23), Joseph Stalin, cock of the Kremlin walk, last week crowed a loud denial of something firmly believed by most foreigners in Moscow, not to speak of some natives. Correspondent G. E. R...
...recording companies have been too busy improving the fidelity of discs to worry about film. But last fortnight London's Society for Cultural Relations with the U. S. S. R. showed Londoners that the Soviet Government had been pioneering in film records. At the Academy Movie Theatre 5,000 feet of Soviet musical film were unreeled, reproducing Shostakovich's entire Fifth Symphony, a Song of Jubilation by 40-year-old Soviet Composer Alexander Veprik, a scattering of shorter compositions...