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...maintained on the subject of Italy's ally, Germany, ever since Italy entered World War II. The democracies had feared the silence meant tacit approval of the Axis. But the broadcast condemned Naziism in the strongest terms the Vatican had used since the invasion of Poland. Text for the castigation was an editorial from Catholic Spain-which Pius XII is presumably as anxious as U. S. and British Catholics to keep out of the arms of the Axis. The Madrid Alcázar had written: "National Socialism is primarily a religious movement based on Christian principle." Said the Vatican...
...sleight-of-hand personified, and it oozed cleverness. But it didn't ring true. Its themes bickered away in endless mediocrity, in a ceaseless spewing forth of notes and more notes--the whole thing suggestive of some mediaeval theologian spinning his scholastic cobwebs out of a decrepit, hacked-over text. It was most strongly suggestive, however, of four extremely competent musicians going through a terrific technical work...
...parlor admitted piracy and closed its doors, sounding the death knell for all similar organizations, for in accordance with the decision, future tutoring, based on class-lecture and text notes, would be held by the courts as a violation of the copyright laws. of the last power that stands between us and complete isolation in a fascist world. The more threat imposed by such a world can check the hopes of liberal democracy: could even destroy it as effectively as war itself...
...front. The first blood I saw was that of the children of Getafe, terribly cut in pieces by Nazi bombs. Two weeks later I saw the pictures of those unhappy children published in the German anti-Semitic newspaper of Mr. Streicher, and I had to read the incredible, cynical text beyond the pictures: "Look how the Reds in Spain kill their own children !" It was this cynicism of the enemy (and not an insane passion of mine for the "smell of blood") which decided me to enter the brigades which your reporter honored by the true remark that they were...
...Student Council Committee headed by Alan Gottlieb '41 worked with F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Assistant Dean, and J.R. Stewart, Superintendent of Caretakers, to prepare the new regulations, the text of which follows...