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...ugly head. Various schemes for giving students living about the square an opportunity to participate in House activities have been offered. Outstanding among them is the suggestion that associate memberships be established in the various Houses. However, the proposal has failed to click and there seems to be no likelihood that it will be acted upon in the near future. What can be done in the meantime...
...Administration attempt to enlist public opinion behind the peace effort came as the A. F. L. - C. I. O. conferees themselves admitted privately that they saw little likelihood of settling immediately their struggle for supremacy...
This public hinting to the College of Cardinals pointed to the likelihood that, in private, there was tremendous pressure at work, probably more than at any time since the days when Catholic monarchs exercised a veto over the conclave. Wrote Michael Williams, U. S. Catholic journalist en route to Rome: "If certain powerful influences known to be deeply concerned both in Italy and neighboring countries are effective in their behind-the-scene maneuvers, the conclave will be greatly prolonged beyond the few days requisite for the slow and orderly movement of even the most obvious decision in the Vatican...
...Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist-controlled" units. Even the most cursory examination discloses the fact that this outburst is in the nature of a red herring, and that, in all likelihood, no one concerned will take any positive action...
...said Adolf Hitler at Nürnberg in 1936. Last week Führer Hitler, after a year of magnificent triumphs, could still not see any likelihood of getting his hands on the faraway Urals. If there was any grabbing to be done in Siberia, Japan rather than Germany would do it. But the Ukraine was different. There the signs were getting plainer and plainer that Führer Hitler thought the time was approaching when the Ukraine-which includes parts of Poland and Rumania as well as of Soviet Russia-would be ripe for Nazi plucking...