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...Good. He cites Pius' attempt to help save the Jews of Rome from deportation by the Germans, takes note of papal statements that indicate Pius' personal anguish over Nazi atrocities. Friedlander also quotes from a long letter that the Pope wrote to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing in 1943 suggesting that an open protest would do no good, since it would only stir Hitler to worse evils. He includes the argument made by Vatican diplomats that for Pius to attack Hitler during the war would involve German Catholics in a crisis of confidence, and would...
...associate program grew from an HUC study of the freshman advisory study in April. F. Skiddy von Stade Jr '38, dean of freshmen, rejected an original HUC proposal which would have put upperclassmen in the Yard as resident advisors and assigned groups of roommates as advisors to proctorial units...
...Count von Luckner Milestone [April 22] failed to mention one of the accomplishments for which he was best known, his astounding physical strength. In the 1930s, as his unofficial host in Panama, I took him to dinner on the carrier Saratoga. He was asked if he could tear any book in half, and he said yes. The officers produced first a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, which he caught in midair; it barely touched his hands and went sailing back, torn crosswise from the back into two pieces. They handed him a 1,700-page dictionary, and he grasped...
...Von Stade, who has jurisdiction over freshman proctors and advisors, said that said not institute the program until the House Masters discuss it at the April 18 meeting of the Committee on Houses. Six of the nine Masters have already indicated that they support the program, according...
...offered its recommendations to Von Stade two weeks ago after a poll of freshman indicated that almost half the class believes their present proctors and advisors have made no "positive contribution" to their first year at Harvard...