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Promptly police went to work. Army sappers were rushed to clear away a ten-foot mass of debris. To forestall alarm or to help the search for dynamiters, blacked-out Munich was suddenly lit up. Someone started a wildfire rumor that lights meant peace: the Netherlands-Belgium offer had taken effect. Soon Germany's second hysterical false armistice was in full celebration. Police angrily cleared the streets and killed the hope...
...waitress in the Harvard Freshman Dining Hall, Mrs. Evelyn Bailey, has been in the hands of immigration authorities since her arrest late Friday night at the conclusion of a seven year search...
...This is a matter which transcends civil liberties," Edward C. K. Read '40, Lampy president thundered last night. "Our forefathers came to America in search of religious freedom. The traditions of a great and liberal institution are being flagrantly violated by this autocratic dictation of our Thanksgiving rights...
...which annoyed Adolf Hitler, who last week called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land...
...least three first-rate English writers were paying the U. S. the compliment of "exile"-which at least two great U. S. writers (Henry James and T. S. Eliot) had paid to England in the past. W. H. Auden (rhymes with applaudin'), whose search for noonday truth took him to Iceland in 1936 (Letters From Iceland), then to Spain during the Civil War, then to China (Journey to a War), last week had taken an apartment in Brooklyn and intended to stay. Bony-faced, eager, un-slicked, Auden told a reporter that he saw one hopeful prospect from...