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...Hitler has no second year in which to conquer Russia. He has at most four months, perhaps only three, in which Russia must be conquered or the war will be lost to Germany. From his standpoint, Russia must be liquidated as an enemy before the U.S. can throw its real weight into the war. Hitler must beat Russia in time to allow the German war machine to turn and meet the enemy in the West...
...agreement. Stalin had opened the discussions by asking Britain, as an earnest of permanent friendship, to promise that in the peace settlement Russia should recover the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), as well as a part of Poland, to serve as protection against future German aggression. From the standpoint of Russia, that was perhaps no more unreasonable than for the U.S. to ask for the Japanese-mandated islands in the Pacific as protection against future Japanese assaults...
...priests of the first Catholic mission to the islands were eaten by the natives. Two of the priests of the second mission were eaten in 1852. A permanent mission, finally established in 1903, was not found very palatable by the natives-either from the dietetic or theological standpoint-until meteoric young Father Wade (he was then 30) arrived from Providence, R.I., 18 years ago. Within seven years he was made bishop, and since then he has had such success that he has brought 36,540 of the 57,928 islanders into his fold...
...Practically perfect human beings from the standpoint of physical endurance," is the label place on the members of the Varsity crew by the Fatigue Laboratory. Their rating generally is 100, or even more, and the more normal residue of the undergraduates are graded on a proportionate scale down to zero. But it is doubtful, they say, that even the most non-athletic grind could attain this lowest of scores...
...Beethoven in the Ninth, however, despite the massiveness of much of the thematic material and the lengthened time-scale, has managed to keep a perfect equilibrium between the parts. The choral movement, one of the most exhausting twenty minutes of singing in musical literature, from a purely musical standpoint develops logically from the rest of the symphony, but, in my opinion, does not quite equal the other three movements in inspiration...