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...There is hardly a regiment in Italy in which other Americans are not being held. Some of them are terrorized. They have relatives there who appeal to them not to say anything lest dire punishment be visited upon them...
Under the Official Secrets Act (see p. 28) the MacDonald Government threatened dire punishment to any British paper which scoops the report before it is officially released. Vol. I two weeks hence. Vol. II four weeks hence. George V and Mr. MacDonald received their copies last week. Current London opinion was that the Simon Report will pussyfoot, will recommend nothing which can bridge the gulf between India and Britain...
...Doorn advanced in a potent sentence, well worth pondering: "The intercession of the crucified Lord, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,' is not intended for the Jewish leaders but for the poor German legion aries, who, acting under the orders of their superiors, must inflict dire suffering upon the Lord...
Little over a year ago President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History made dire threats to his directors. He was irked by the annual hat-passing made necessary by the Museum's perennial deficit. If new endowment was not forthcoming, said he, the following would be apt to happen: dismissal of 35 employes, stoppage of support for field expeditions, reduction of publications, suspension of other museum work...
...month Labor and Negroes had fomented political hostility to Judge Parker's confirmation, had threatened Senators up for re-election with dire reprisals if they dared favor the nominee. President Hoover had stoutly refused to withdraw his appointment. Last week he consented that the Judiciary Committee call Judge Parker for questioning, but the Committee voted ten-to-four against hearing him in his own defense...