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Plain Princess. Under the Grand Duchess Charlotte and her husband, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (Xavier's younger brother), Luxembourg prospered again, until at the outbreak of World War II it was a thriving little country of rich peasants, rich merchants, rich industrialists. It banks for much of Europe, is headquarters of Orbed, big European steel cartel, ranks as tenth steel-producing country of the world. It manufactures also leather and beer. Were it not for its fear of both friends and foes-which can hardly be told apart-Luxembourg would be a perfect Ruritania...
Louis XVI's Successors. Meantime, before a military court, the trial of 44 Communist ex-Deputies went into its second week. Charged with attempting to carry on "treacherous" activities by changing their Party's name after war's outbreak, the 44 continued to complain that their rights as French citizens were being violated because their trial was in camera. Even Louis XVI got a public trial, they pointed out. The official French attitude was that if all 44 legislators were permitted to sound off in public, the case would not end before 1941. In prospect for them...
...agreements were made out last September at the time of the outbreak of the fighting, and it was realized that if we should enter the war, a complete change of the Summer School program would be necessary. There is now not a chance in the world that this will come about," Mather asserted...
...history course next year, therefore, will correspond to the present 32a with the addition of the last semester on contempory twentieth century history up to the outbreak of the second World...
...Last year Dr. May and his colleagues reported that they had formed some theories at least about why men do not live harmoniously, published their theories in a book called Frustration and Aggression (TIME, March 6). Last week Dr. May brought his report up to date, announced that the outbreak of World War II had confirmed his scientists' theories...