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Having read the CRIMSON editorial about the subject of non-honors tutorial (CRIMSON, Feb. 18), I think it is time that I express myself on the subject of history tutorial for sophomores. As it stands now sophomore tutorial in history is easily the equivalent of a fifth course, and therefore one should get a full course credit for it. One not only has to read a good, solid 200 pages or more for each 2 hour fortnightly session, but one has also to write 6,000 words in essays. At least one of these essays is on reading in addition...
When Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
Last week, a century later, the Anglo-Egyptian agreement to let Suez bygones be bygones was being held up largely because of the claims of one Iraqi-born Jewish British subject to property in Egypt. This time, far from boasting of its readiness to defend each and every subject of the crown, Britain's Treasury spokesman insisted: "We have never, never said the name of Smouha...
...Farm? The Smouha affair, or the Smouhaha, as London wags inevitably called it, arose over the fanciest deal struck in a lifetime of shrewd dealing (cotton, moneylending, land speculating) by one Joseph Smouha, longtime operator in the Persian Gulf, Lancashire and the Levant, and known as the richest British subject in Egypt. This was his acquisition of 700 swampy acres on Alexandria's outskirts. He got Farouk's father, Fuad I, to proclaim it "Smouha City" and, while holding about half as low-tax "farm land" for future speculative profit, turned the other half into villas...
...places in the free world where a birth-control congress could count on local interest in the subject, India was No. 1. Speaking in New Delhi last week to the Sixth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Britain's Sir Julian Huxley warned that India's "failure to solve her population problem will be a political and social disaster," while "success will secure her leadership in Asia and give hope to the world at large." Biologist Huxley called it absurd that in India's second five-year plan $14 million is being spent on malaria control, which "will...