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Last April Secretary of State Stettinius (presumably with the knowledge and consent of President Roosevelt), swore there were no more secret agreements at Yalta except military ones. This week, on Yalta's first anniversary, his successor released what he swore was Yalta's last secret agreement...
...minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ... in charge of a large United Church congregation . . . can consent to this barnyard indecency at a religious service is beyond us. It is a travesty...
...problem is not how to regulate the student some more, but how to set him free, how to give him the four freedoms of college: freedom from family, freedom from faculty, freedom from administration and freedom from himself.' The success of education, added Dr MacCracken, depends on the "consent, interest, participation, and integrity" of the educated...
...Queen, who likes to consider herself a Cockney by choice if not by birth, is happiest in London. Only on the express command of George VI did she consent to sit out the war in Gloucestershire. Now she is back in blitzed but unbroken Maryborough House, living in six of its 200 rooms with a handful of loyal retainers on her civil grant of ?70,000 ($280,000) a year. She hardly ever entertains any more. When she does, her meals are patriotically, chillingly austere...
Many were dismayed to hear a top British leader denouncing compromise; but their gloom might be lightened by recalling that Laski does not lead the British Labor Party whose brow he inhabits. Although he has initiated many a successful leftist politician into the austere mysteries of "revolution by consent," as yet no public vote anywhere has ever elected Harold Laski to anything...