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Rundstedt could scarcely pass a fanaticism test. A devout and amoral Junker, he gives his basic loyalty to the German military tradition rather than to the Nazi Party. After his dismissal last week, a Stockholm rumor promptly had him under house arrest. More probably he retired to his country place in Bad Nauheim with his phonograph records (all military marches by brass bands) and his collection of buttons and epaulets of all the world's armies...
...start, Colonel Howley laid down a basic rule: "The business of civil administration belongs to the French. Our job is merely to help them cope with an emergency." He and his men, American and British, have worked on that principle ever since. Within two or three days, most of the essential services were at least in partial operation. Civil Affairs men had even helped to reopen a Cherbourg cinema, revive a local newspaper...
There can be no durable peace between the U.S. and Russia "until the basic political and human liberties are established in the Soviet Union. ... If [the Russians] refuse, it will be better not to deceive ourselves. . . . The world order cannot be half democratic and half totalitarian...
Piano tuning, like diamond cutting and bassoon playing, tends to run in families. Tuners require about nine months to learn the basic principles of their craft, at least three more years to become proficient. Curiously, few of them can play the piano...
Harvard's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa announced six honorary memberships on Commencement Day. Elected were Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony; I. A. Richards, co-developer (with C. K. Ogden) of Basic English, and University Lecturer in English; Radcliffe's President Wilbur K. Jordan; Judge John F. Perkins '99, of the Boston Juvenile Court; Rudolph Altrocchi '07, Professor of Italian at the University of California and President of the Associated Harvard Clubs; and Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen...