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...Wednesday morning the resolution had reached New Delhi. The Viceroy's Council met in the long, high-windowed council room, darkened against the glaring sun. What they would do was a foregone conclusion. The British Government of India does not possess the authority to commit Constitutional suicide; at best it could refer the decision to His Majesty's Government at London. This...
...show its stuff. Last week peacock-proud Charlie Sorensen showed newsmen the first B-24-E bomber off Willow Run's half-mile long assembly lines, predicted a ship an hour by late summer. Said he: "[This plant] is an invitation for Hitler to commit suicide...
...official prosecutor" of an antitrust indictment against him) that he stamped out of the room, saying "I refuse to be called un-American ! " But no voice was raised against the bill which these doings were designed to promote. S. 2303, sponsored by Senators Bone (Chairman of the Patents Commit tee), O'Mahoney and La Follette, gives the President power to grab any patent needed for war or national defense, to license it to anyone he cares to for as long as he deems necessary, for payment of a "reasonable royalty fee." One section of S. 2303 looked to nervous...
...office of the Questura (police) and left alone for two or three hours in the stench of moldy paper and urine characteristic of Italian police stations. Then he was told that he was guilty of high treason and would be shot in the morning. S. K. could not commit suicide, because the police had discovered where he kept his granule of cyanide, and took it away from him. How he got out of that one proved to be a turning point in S. K.'s relations with the anti-Fascist "underground"-the cryptic groups that with sabotage, strikes, espionage...
...industrialists who are now in exile, will then attempt to formulate a definite plan for the reconstruction of the Royal Dutch Empire after the war is over. This Committee, although it is approved by the Royal Dutch Government, is only semi-official as the Government is not anxious to commit itself on matters of policy at this time, according to Professor de Haas...