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...watch the 3,000,000 foreigners in France a special mobile police of 40 chiefs, 215 detective inspectors was recently formed to reinforce the famed Deuxieme Bureau of the War Ministry, watchdog of French official secrets. Also the Minister of the Interior was empowered to expel or fix the residence of any foreigners. By decree last week Premier Edouard Daladier transferred espionage trials from civil tribunals to military and naval courts. The military law prescribes death for espionage; hence spies caught in the service of a foreign power, gathering information on inventions, manufactures, industrial methods, maps, documents or military plans...
Moreover, there is a broader aim which the Crimson conceives for its Confidential Guide, an aim through which service can be rendered to the college as a whole. It is the hope of the editors that their pamphlet is a watchdog of Harvard's educational system, guarding its high standards and helping to prevent any lowering of them. As long as its criticism remains unbiased and constructive, and in so far as it continues to approach an accurate expression of undergraduate thought, this ideal will be realized...
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...Lowell, Mass., police halted Frank W. Shuflat, found him loaded down with $100 worth of merchandise, leading on a leash a docile police dog, watchdog of a restaurant he had just robbed...
When President Gay made his original assault on SEC trading strictures, the Commission's chairman was James M. Landis. An amiable watchdog, he made only a partial retort, resigned to become dean of Harvard Law School (TIME, Sept. 27). For not replying in full, the SEC came in for considerable criticism from New Dealers. So when the SEC fell to Chairman William Orville Douglas, he began negotiating with the Stock Exchange for a letter to be written by President Gay explaining that the Exchange had no knife sharpened for the SEC and reviewing the Exchange's own plans...