Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a workable alphabet, interpretation corrected, and a collection of phrases which had been tested on a number of non-English-speaking Indians, Mr. Modley got out his posters, with text in Navajo and English...
...Suritz Non Grata. Nonfiction, but in some spots very tantalizing melodrama, was the affaire Suritz, which did nothing to detract from Allied-Russian tension. Since 1919 bulging, bearded Jacob Suritz has been No. 1 Soviet diplomat, with a brilliant record in Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and League of Nations wrangles. He was for years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive...
Soviet Premier Molotov promptly sent instructions which caused Ambassador Suritz, now persona non grata in France, to swing aboard the Simplon Express last week. At that, Ambassador Suritz could not have been wholly sorry to leave Paris. Since the war with Finland his Government has been a good deal less than popular in France. On a recent evening French Playwright René Fauchois saw the Ambassador rolling by in his bulletproof limousine, hollered: "Vive la Finlande!" 'Bulletproof notwithstanding, the Ambassador dived for the car's floor...
...non-dripping hot dog, with a hole through the middle in which the mustard is deposited by a tube...
Archbishop Spellman uttered the first authoritative U. S. Catholic defense of President Roosevelt's embassy to the Pope. Of critics: "The only reason which the non-approvalists seem to have for their position is the shibboleth of separation of Church and State. ... It is obvious that if the Church strives to make men better spiritually, they should be better civically and morally. Conversely, the State promoting the welfare of society works indirectly for the sanctification of souls. But this was true in 1797 when Mr. Sartori represented the U. S. at the Vatican . . . and it will still be true...