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...this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom in the stacks so graduate students do not have to walk to the basement like other library users. Thus the graduate benefits at the expense of the undergraduate...
According to Marvin, the new chairman will be relieved of a difficult problem by having his executive positions filled from the start, as, without access to University Hall records, he could not hope to make more than a haphazard choice...
...however, where press restrictions had seemed intolerable in peace time, correspondents were free to cable whatever they pleased. They were bound by a system of responsibility: no censor touched their copy, but if they sent dispatches which the Ministry for Propaganda considered false or damaging they could be denied access to news sources or expelled from the country. The German Army was conducting a few picked reporters on tours of the war area in Poland. Consequently most of the authentic war news that reached the U. S. came from Berlin and told of German victories...
...First news was that the British Royal Navy, already at battle stations, controlled the Mediterranean at both ends and had blockaded Germany completely from the North Sea to the Skagerrak. This action, now that Germany had access to Russia's food and raw materials, meant less than it did in World War I unless the British were prepared for the desperate adventure of forcing and commanding the Baltic...
...strong as these sorry reasons were, two splendid ways of looking at his neutrality remained to Il Duce. In the military situation created by the West Wall-Maginot Line stalemate, a neutral Italy, blocking access to Germany via the Tyrolean passes, had tremendous nuisance value. It would force Britain & France to go clear around through the Dardanelles, Black Sea and Rumania to assist Poland and establish the Salonika front (see p. 22). It was nuisance so great that it might bring B. Mussolini a fancy price if he chose to sell...