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SOFIA-The German war machine rolled through Sofia's blacked-out streets tonight amid a nationwide mobilization against any sudden British air attack after a parting warning by British Minister George Rendel that Bulgaria "may suffer" for her capitulation to Adolph Hitler...
...week's end the people learned two sickening truths. The Government came right out and said that the Nazis intended to march their Army across the land to attack Greece-i.e., there was nothing to be done about it. And the British Minister to Bulgaria, George William Rendel, answered this with a curt announcement: "If the Germans occupy Bulgaria and make it a base against our ally, obviously we shall have to break off relations with Bulgaria and take whatever measures the situation requires"-i.e., Britain would make war on Bulgaria, and nothing could be done about that...
...possibly Jesus was a man short of stature, possibly only about 5 ft. 2 in. Such last week was the British analysis attributed to Dr. James Rendel Harris, curator of MSS at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, Eng. Dr. Harris is one of the greatest living authorities on biblical history and texts. At one time he was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Most of his life he has spent in the East searching for manuscripts. Thus in a Syriac document of the Eighth Century, just deciphered, he has found this reference to Christ's stature: "Thy stature...
...Semitic Museum has recently acquired a collection of about 125 Syriac manuscripts. Although some are modern copies on paper, others are old manuscripts on parchment and vellum. These manuscripts go back to the twelfth century and even to the Bible. The collection was made by Professor J. Rendel Harris of England, one of the foremost scholars in Syriac studies...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers yesterday it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes - appointing Henry Lee, William Sturgis Bigelow, and Arthur Astor Carey, Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year from January 1, 1895; Professor J. Rendel Harris as Lecturer on recent biblical discoveries for the remainder of the current academic year...