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...importance of the East Indies to the Allies is tremendous, as they provide petrol, tin, quinine, and rubber, all of them vital, he pointed out, and thus it is necessary for us to maintain a strong policy to keep Japan...
...Romsdal Fjord. Some reports said he would go to Great Britain, as did his Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, while calling back over his shoulder to his countrymen to resist to the last. But Norse loyalists insisted that their King would take his stand and maintain his Government in one of the three northern provinces yet left to him: Nordland, Troms, Finnmark. Upon his attitude and whereabouts, or those of his son, Crown Prince Olav, depended the immediate fate of Norway's Boyg and the completeness of the Falkenhorst conquest...
...ground that foreign owners did not give Mexican labor a straight shake, had to announce an "Economy Program" which meant firing one oil worker out of six. One reason for all these headaches to Lazaro Cardenas has been the efforts of expropriated U. S. and British oilmen to maintain a "united front" and refuse to market for the Mexican Government oil they considered stolen from them. Last week Oilman Harry F. Sinclair blithely deserted the united front to make an inside deal with the Cardenas Government...
...purpose of the Committee was to gather data about the conduct of tutorial instruction, and the administration of the tutorial system at Harvard. On the basis of the data (obtained from tutors) conclusions have been drawn and proposals made; but we do not maintain that these constitute an exhaustive critique of the tutorial system...
...their crisis the Dutch showed that they still knew how to maintain law & order. One E. J. B. M. Boenninghausen, Nazi member of the 'First Chamber of Parliament, took exception to two detectives who watched the Chamber's proceedings through a half-open door, tried to jerk the door wide open. One of the detectives rapped his knuckles with a revolver butt. The other slammed the door in his face. Purple-faced Nazi Boenninghausen demanded that the detectives be removed. Replied the Chamber's President Baron de Vos van Steenwyk: "You will be the one removed...