Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polished and primped from stem to stern, she sailed from Southampton last week with 2,200 paying passengers aboard (fares: first class, $365 and up; tourist, $165). Number one among the notables: U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. At Commodore Sir James Bissett's invitation, Molotov took the liner's helm for a few minutes, veered two degrees off course -to the left...
...appointment of Phillip M. Stern '47, of Adams House, to replace L. Magruder Passano '46, as secretary of the Committee, was announced. Passano was forced to resign because of pressure from his duties with the Crimson Network. Chairman Edric A. Weld '46 announced that the Crimson Network Forum on constitutional reforms originally scheduled for tonight has been cancelled...
This might have been cause for some lingering hope; but immovable Mr. Molotov, in a final bitter blast, denounced the conference from stem to stern, and stated that his country would ignore the conference balloting when the Big Four came to grips on the final texts. It was inadmissible, Mr. Molotov said in effect, that the West should gang up on the Soviet group by a mere mustering of votes...
...Stern Brigitte cannot abide love in others. When a poor schoolmaster and a plain little seamstress wish to marry, she does her best to prevent it-then watches their poverty and sorrow with pretended concern but real satisfaction...
...other school of opinion held that the judges had been too stern. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft denounced the hangings as violating "fundamental principles of American law." Some cynics still believed that Nürnberg had merely meted out the traditional victor's law over the vanquished. When a newsman asked General Eisenhower whether he believed he would have been hanged by the Germans, had the war gone the other way, Eisenhower answered smilingly: "Such thoughts you have!" A literary wag last week put such thoughts into a political fantasy. Excerpts...