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...right to refuse admittance [to Britain] to those whom we have no desire to entertain." Last week, the government proceeded to exercise that right to the full. Scotland Yard men hurried to Britain's ports and airfields to turn back scores of travelers on their way to Sheffield, busy Yorkshire steel city, to attend the Russian-inspired Second World Peace Congress, a propaganda platform for international Communism...
...days before the congress was due to open, its leaders realized glumly that only a few hundred of the expected 2,000 delegates were going to arrive. Thereupon all but one of the Sheffield sessions-originally scheduled to last a week-were ordered shifted to Warsaw...
...relevant to Harvard too. The University had just graduated its last wartime class; you could look at the little numeral after a student's name, now, and tell when he would get his diploma. But in a year or so, the neat sequence of classes would be Sheffield and broken and there was the uncomfortable possibility that if the class numerals were juggled long enough uniforms would reappear in the Yard, and companies would again stand at attention before Sever Hall and march to class. Of course, if things got very much worse there was an equal possibility that Sever...
...relevant to Harvard too. The University had just graduated its last wartime class; you could look at the little numeral after a student's name, now, and tell when he would get his diploma. But in a year or so, the neat sequence of classes would be Sheffield and broken and there was the uncomfortable possibility that if the class numerals were juggled long enough uniforms would reappear in the Yard, and companies would again stand at attention before Sever Hall and march to class. Of course, if things got very much worse there was an equal possibility that Sever...
Under the leadership of E. George Cloutier '51, president of the IICC, the party travelled from Sheffield, Massachusetts, to the mouth of the Housatonic on Long Island Sound...