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...sticky atmosphere, in which anything could happen, cleared suddenly. The impossible became a fact. After three hours behind closed doors, the seven conferees announced that the French Committee of National Liberation had begun to function. By week's end it was clear that De Gaullism would dominate the central power. Peyrouton was replaced by General Catroux. Notorious ex-Vichyite General Auguste Noguès (he had opposed the U.S. landing at Casablanca) stepped out as Resident General of Morocco. The purging process, first of many hard tasks before the new France, had begun. This week, the seven-man committee...
...first two of these elements served a policing function: the British Navy kept war lords within bounds, gold taught finance ministers discretion. The Navy, through its support of constituted authority and lawful procedure, was usually successful in preventing the seizure or destruction of property by rioters, revolutionaries, or plain bandits and pirates. Supplementing this strong arm was the practice of extraterritoriality : the setting up of courts to administer British law so that entrepreneurs might be spared the more extreme abuses of the local legal apparatus. Law backed by force made the Pax Britannica the assurance of peace and fair play...
...artists, and a few scientists, the hand is as revealing as the face in expressing temperament, heredity, life habits, glandular function. One such scientist, Dr. Charlotte Wolff, physician and psychologist, last week gave her second summary of findings in the science of chirology. In The Human Hand (Alfred A. Knopf, $3) she carried on her rescue of the hand from the hocus-pocus of palmistry and fortunetelling, gave laymen some interesting reading as well...
...arts college. This announcement has been for a long time inevitable. In a program that is primarily one of war training there is little time to publish the Crimson; indeed, there is small place for it in a college of uniforms. The need of news reporting remains, and this function will be performed by the Harvard Service News...
...believe that the Crimson has had a unique and necessary role at Harvard. This role has become obsolete with war, but we pledge ourselves that with the rebuilding of the College will come a new Crimson dedicated to the same function...