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...insurance against damage in the bombing of New York, Washington, Boston, or other American cities, at odds of 1000 to 1. Such odds, of course, might just as well be 1,000,000 to 1. They mean that the bombing of this country lies not even remotely within the realm of reasonable possibility...
...London British public opinion grumbled that the royal bootsman should himself be given the boot. Increasingly fed up were the Allies with his shilly-shallying over a clause in the peace terms which called for delivery of all German nationals in his realm. One day last week the British expected to start 225 Nazis rolling from Teheran for internment in India; the Russians had earmarked 50 for Soviet sojourn. After 24 hours of diddle-dumpling run-around from the German Legation, the British received 72 prisoners, the Russians eight. The Allies threatened to get good & tough (i.e., to occupy Teheran...
South of Massachusetts Avenue lies the realm of upperclassmen, the land of Houses, clubs, and tailoring establishments. On Holyoke Street, south of the Hygiene Building, is the Indoor Athletic Building. At the foot of Boylston Street, near the Cambridge end of the Lars Anderson Bridge, is the Weld Boat Club, home of single scullers. On Massachusetts Avenue are Holyoke and Little Halls...
...year-old body of King Sisowath II of Cambodia. It had had less & less to live for. A few years ago depression obliged it to part with 100 of its 200 wives. Last March Japanese mediators took a large part of Sisowath's steaming, many-templed puppet realm away from French Indo-China, gave it to Thailand...
...President is a profound student of naval strategy, a genius at political maneuver. But he does not delegate authority. He is not at home in the realm of industry and production. Above all, he does not call forth the national will to action-although, because he is the President, it can scarcely act unless he leads...