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Mayor Levi pronounces his name lee-vie, is distressed when he hears it called lee-vee, regards his ancestry as Anglo-Saxon. He is friendlier to the Jewish influx than was Founder Fisher, whose companies' hotels still bar Jews...
...Suez were reported to number 30,000, volunteers all. Further attention was drawn to this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended for a mile and a half, with vehicles standing three to six deep. The reviewing party was an hour and a half making its circuit. Next day General Weygand inspected...
Professor Pound was not certain yesterday about his plans for next year, though he felt certain that he would continue to teach Government 43, "An Introduction to the History and System of Anglo-American Law", and his course in jurisprudence at the Law School...
...notion of using General Weygand's Army-plus a Turkish Army-on a "Caucasian front"-i. e., in a campaign directed at Russia's rich oil fields. Krasnaya Zvezda, newsorgan of the Soviet Union's Commissariat of Defense, observed: "The scale of war preparations of the Anglo-French bloc in the Near East . . . leads us to think that we are not faced there by a mere diversion limited in scope and character, but by far-reaching strategic plans." Fortnight ago First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill invited Scandinavia (among others) to pitch in and help defeat...
Beneath the outwardly smooth course of Anglo-American relations there runs a current of nagging hostility. The London Daily Express had this sarcastic bit to say on the death of Senator Borah: "We remember him as a biter critic of Britain. In this country he was always regarded as an extremist, but it must be remembered that all Americans shared his creed: America first." It would do no good to fan these smoldering embers, but The State Department can serve well the cause of keeping America at peace by insisting on the rights of neutrals. That these rights...