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...Germany. Last week the big name of the man most responsible for the whole terrible business was attached to still another. His country's economy sagging* from the serious trade losses that followed his pogroms last autumn, Führer Adolf Hitler last week proposed a truce with the Jews. In a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, Director George Rublee presented Führer Hitler's refugee plan...
This week Czech forces sent another barrage of incendiary shells into the Hungarian village of Nagygejoce, near Ugnvar, 25 miles west of Munkacs. Hungarian and Czech army delegates finally arranged a truce, agreed to exchange prisoners and captured materials...
...front page. It was the work of one of Harvard's great coming authors, Mr. Fred J. Sears '42. I speak with confidence, for I have been acquainted with Mr. Sears; type of genius for years. His description of a projected single-handed attack on "those (censored) truce-breaking truckdrivers" in Boston should convince the most skeptical of his virility. I congratulate you on your policy of giving young authors a chance to try their wings: I know of no other publication at Harvard which would have done as much for Fred...
First of all, that very sentence I praised above, namely "I'd like to show those (censored) truce-breaking truck strikers," lacks an object of any sort: show them what, Freddy? If you mean your new coat, or that cup you won at Camp Oolaloo in the rifle shoot, you should have put that in instead of leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support...
Fred J. Sears '42, who styles himself the "Last Republican in Harvard," put in a call last night for 50 students to help him break the Georgian strike, and 600 to "show those (censored) truce breaking truck strikers...