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British Foreign Secretary Bevin* wrote straight to headquarters to ask why Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper, had interpreted a stray sentence of his to mean that Britain had ditched her Russian alliance. Replied Stalin: "It is now clear that you and I share the same viewpoint with regard to the Anglo-Soviet treaty." To Bevin's reiterated offer to extend the alliance from 20 to 50 years, Stalin answered: "Before extending this treaty, it is necessary to change it." Bevin will discuss possible changes with Stalin when he visits Moscow in March...
...morning last week no reporters showed up. There was not even a stray ward committeeman on hand, thumbing through an early paper. Sitting silently in his big, green-cushioned chair, staring at the picture of his dead son, Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly had come to the end of the trail, alone...
...saucy little book called The Point of Parliament, a collection of Punch articles, last week was selling like nylons on London bookstalls. The author was Sir Alan (A.P.) Herbert, M.P., professional humorist, amateur pedant and enthusiastic beller of stray cats...
First speaker of the evening, Dean Hanford outlined expansion of the University since the first freshman class met behind a fence erected against stray cattle and wolves. The swollen 5,000 man enrollment this year is a far cry, he pointed out, from those beginnings...
Hidden in a shadowy corner of the Luxembourg Gardens-where children, lovers and park bench sages still hold pre-eminence over visiting statesmen-stands a large, Government-owned bee colony. Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues...