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...outcome of the present crisis is particularly vital to Bob Menzies, who has made a great impression on Government circles, and most particularly on Winston Churchill, during his two-month stay in London. His best-wishers even say that he would be Mr. Churchill's most likely successor if anything happened to the Prime Minister...
Bobby Byrne, his blues trombone, and his world-renowned dance orchestra was signed up early this morning to play at Harvard's Freshman Jubilee Friday evening, May 23. The long-awaited announcement from Andrew Welch '44, the Committee's chairman, climaxes a two-month search for a suitable band for the biggest annual Freshman social affair...
Last week, in the midst of the worst days Britain had sustained since September, Winston Churchill rose before Parliament and warned of yet worse explosions to come. It was a prognosis which the U.S., having opened the Red Sea (about a two-month voyage from New York) to its shipping, having committed itself a step further in the Battle of the Atlantic by turning over ten anti-rumrunning cutters, having attached Greenland to its sphere of defense (see p. 23), might digest well: "It is," said the Prime Minister, "of course very hazardous to try to forecast in what direction...
Through his great & good friend Hamilton Fish Armstrong, onetime U.S. military attaché in Belgrade, now editor of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Petrovitch got a berth on WRUL, a 50,000-watt powerhouse, last fall. Conditions under which he agreed to operate were simple: a two-month trial at broadcasting three times a week, with no interference from anyone. Within three weeks, the State Department was advised by Arthur Bliss Lane, its Minister in Belgrade, that Dr. Petrovitch was becoming a potent force in Yugoslavia, that he ought to be aired every...
With the return to Oslo of Major Quisling, after a two-month stay in Berlin, Norwegian feeling boiled over. Despite Gestapo terrorism, leaflets, chain letters and mimeographed pamphlets flooded the country shouting opposition to Germany. Fifty thousand copies of the Norwegian Ten Commandments urged loyalty to "King Haakon and the Government you yourself elected," hate for Adolf Hitler and his supporters, death for all quislings and any who consort with them. With a spunky show of defiance 149 out of 150 Norwegian Deputies banded together in what they called an Anti-Quisling Front. Norwegian wits shortened the Reich Commissioner...