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Crossroads of Empire. All shipping from the Mediterranean and India to the Far East, all shipping from Britain to Australia must pass through the narrow Strait of Malacca, which was controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and finally by the British after 1824. But the island of Singapore (in Malayan...
To their contemporaries, the surprising thing about the marriage of Prince and Princess Lieven was that it lasted for almost 40 years. Russian Ambassador to England after the Napoleonic wars, Lieven was an upright, punctilious, short-sighted wittol whose portrait makes him look like an aristocratic Andy Gump. Dorothea, his...
The Crimson shares with most otherwise well informed people a strange illiteracy with regard to the American peace movement. Far from being a little group of impractical idealists, its leaders are far-sighted political strategists. There are a number of good arguments against the war referendum; but taken as a...
Latest radio dispatches last night revealed that Richard W. Heurtley, Jr., bold adventurer of the Class of 1940, had been sighted by a Coast Guard cutter paddling his canoe in the rough waters off Rocky Point in the Long Island Sound.
Representatives of the A. F. of L. chosen as bargaining agents by the cooks, bus boys, and waitresses, sat down yesterday around the conference table with Mr. Durant and Mr. Westcott to arrive at some sort of an agreement concerning their mutual problems. Many students will agree that this represents...