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...Royal Empire Society, studious Malcolm MacDonald said: some day Great Britain could conceivably lose Canada as a member of the Empire, if she ever forces Canada to choose between the U.S. and Britain. If she wishes to avoid that loss, Britain had better recognize the toughness of Canadian-U.S. ties. Britain must "conduct her affairs so that Canada will never have to make the choice between . . . the United Kingdom and . . . the United States." Canada is under the influence of American thought and ideas, but she is still essentially British in instinct. Britain's job, said Malcolm MacDonald...
Patience, Please. In Wabash, Ind., Judge Homer T. Showalter, because he had only enough pages left in his court docket for two days' business, urged the public to avoid law-breaking until a new docket came from the printers...
...historical research, Professor McIlwain has managed to avoid the catacombs of Widener by accumulating a sizable library of his own, a library which includes books in German, French, Latin, and assorted languages. Located in a large and pleasant room, book-lined on all sides, it contains many classic and compendious volumes of which the oldest book is a 1478 edition of "Augustinus Triumphus," beautifully done on what he calls "real paper, not this cheap modern stuff...
...Radcliffe, no change is expected in the previous enrollment of 350 students at the graduate level. The Graduate School is making arrangements with Radcliffe so as to avoid overcrowding those fields where equipment is already strained...
...since Pearl Harbor. Without the rate increase, the roads said, they could not buy new equipment, like the vermilion-and-grey streamlined Pacemaker freight train (with panel smoke deflectors on the locomotive) which the New York Central is starting between New York and Niagara Falls. Nor could they avoid a loss this year...