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When the U.S. public woke up to the fact that organized fifth columns were scattered throughout both the Americas, the U.S. already had four official agencies devoted to keeping the Americas one big family: the Pan American Union, the Department of State's Division of Cultural Relations, the Library of Congress' Hispanic Foundation, The Inter-Departmental Committee on Cooperation with the American Republics. Also interested were no less than 16 semi-official organizations such as the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America and the Council for Pan American Democracy, plus many smaller groups. These, however...
Next twelve hours he was kept under armed guard in a major's automobile. At last they parked in a cherry orchard outside Belgrade. It was 6 in the morning; the major said he would deal with him when he woke at 9. In time's nick he was saved by a Serbian editor, a reserve colonel...
...York City banned two textbooks on German literature which were being used in its public schools. Reason: somebody woke up to the fact that the author, Dr. Otto ("O.K.") Koischwitz, until two years ago in the city's Hunter College, now broadcasts Nazi propaganda from Germany...
Convict McGovern Miller, abed in Sing Sing prison hospital, woke one murky morning this week to a nightmare sight. Out of their beds leaped three fellow felons, fully clothed and armed with guns. Quick as murder they shot and killed the guard in the hospital ward, vanished through the door. That was the last Convict Miller saw of them...
...status of its members. Delinquent unionists ought to wake up to the fact that by holding back on their dues they are doing more than endangering their own jobs-they are hurting the union of their fellow-workers just as much as Aldrich Durant could do if he woke up one morning and decided to act like Mr. Ford's Harry Bennet...