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...Herbert Claiborne Pell, U.S. delegate on the Commission, says frankly that he is in favor of being tough. Gallup polices in Britain recently voted: 40% to shoot Axis big shots outright; 18% for trial; 15% for torture; 11% for imprisonment or exile; the rest for miscellaneous solutions, including one Briton in a hundred who would just let them...
...American wants to be friendly. His way of showing it is by spending his money freely. The Briton, too, wants to be friendly but he cannot follow the American lead because he hasn't the money. That hurts his pride, and he becomes even more than normally...
George Bernard Shaw gave an old-fashioned Shavian interview to a London reporter who asked him, among other things: 1) How can women rid themselves of their many current handicaps? 2) What is the cause of the Briton's patronizing attitude toward women? 3) Should the housewife have an economic status? Shaw's answers: 1) "They are not handicapped. . . . It is men who are handicapped now." 2) "It doesn't exist. Men are abjectly afraid of women, not without reason." 3) "She has it. The country is run by women...
...STARS ARE DARK -Peter Cheyney -Dodd, Mead ($2). A chilled-steel story of the unchronicled war between English and Nazi Intelligence officers, with a cashiered Briton regaining his spurs in a ruthless, double-dealing, bloodthirsty battle of guns and wits with Hitler's ace spy. The best of the new espionage yarns...
...Rhodes Scholarships (two from each U.S. State and Territory, three from each of 18 British colonies and others from Germany) were founded under the will of Cecil John Rhodes, Briton who made a fortune mining diamonds, became Prime Minister of South Africa's Cape Colony at 37, died in 1902 famed as the "Empire Builder." The first Rhodes Scholars went from the U.S. to study at England's Oxford University in 1904. The Scholarships have been discontinued for war's duration...