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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permit us to call attention to an article in the CRIMSON of October 26. In using the term "Jap" to describe the Buddhist Abbot who inspected Harvard on the 25th of this month, you have undoubtedly offended him and other Japanese, who may have read the article. This term is not used by the Japanese, who consider it opprobrious, nor by the U. S. Army of Occupation, except in code designations such as JAP OC, where it is clearly an abbreviation...
Lippmann peers at the conflict between East and West through old-fashioned eyeglasses. Unlike most people-who see the conflict as one of opposing principles and faiths-Lippmann sees it in terms of opposing national powers which can achieve a working relationship through diplomacy. At the core of his thinking is a 19th Century term-the "balance of power." Wrote Lippmann last month: "There is no alternative to the negotiation of a modus vivendi based on the balance of power and of reciprocal advantages." In less Lippmannese English, this means a hardheaded deal between the U.S. and Russia...
Five Year Term...
...factors behind France's instability is the five year term for members of the Assembly. With their security assured for so long a period, political discipline is lax: splinter parties can refuse to support the government and cause its collapse on unimportant issues without risking new elections...
Meanwhile, he had been elected mayor of Boston again and had to leave City Hall to serve his term. It was then, that Curley's strongest opponent in the present, mayoralty race, John' B. Hynes, became acting mayor. The city's charter provides that the chairman of the city council be mayor in case the elected mayor's indisposition, but in such a confused state was the city of Boston, that the city council chairman was also being held on under indictment by a grand jury, charged with graft. Thus, Hynes, the City Clerk, became mayor and was given...