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...mere fact that an "unwritten law" should crack down particularly on the more politically minded members of the university gives it an unsavory aura. No matter what the origin of this law, no matter what the original purpose, its present function is dangerous. It has almost become a stop-gap to the flow of ideas...
...market gone, and the European neutrals hamstrung by the war's disruption of shipping, Latin America has to find somewhere to sell her goods in order to get money to buy from the U. S. For the present the war needs of the Allies will help fill the gap. But in the long run another answer to the problem must be found and the only permanent answer is that the U. S. must buy more Latin American goods...
...good jokes, stuffs his pockets with them when he goes to a banquet, Lord Macmillan was a youthful prodigy at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to the Scottish bar at 24 and became editor of a legal review at 27. Then his career hit an eleven-year gap of unpublicized performance from which it emerged in 1918, to reveal the young lawyer as Assistant Director of Intelligence in Britain's Wartime Ministry of Information. After the War, Scot Macmillan was a congenital committee chairman: of committees investigating lunacy and mental disorders, street offenses, the coal dispute, the wage...
...Land. All down the 250-mile Maginot Line, heavy guns started talking at dawn Monday. By nightfall of the first day the French were believed to have launched two high-powered flanking attacks, one at the "Burgundy Gate" or "Belfort Gap" just above the Swiss border, another into the Moselle valley just below Luxembourg. Masses of mobile troops were ready for infiltration maneuvers, to penetrate between gaps in the West Wall which, unlike the Maginot Line, is rather a series of sunken forts with tank traps and interlocking underground tunnels, than a continuous defense bastion. First "contact...
CLIVE OF PLASSEY -A. Mervyn Davies - Scribner ($3.75). Most people remember Robert, Lord Clive as a figure in Henty's With Clive In India. There was little else to read about him until last week A. Mervyn Davies, onetime British diplomat and author of Warren Hastings filled the gap with a solid, non-spark, thoroughly readable, 522-page biography, Clive of Plassey...