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Despite a good share of war ruins and a great deal of real poverty, the Italians show little trace of the war neurosis that is attacking the rest of Europe. They have the practical resilience of a peasant people. Ninety-five percent of them have never thought of anything but work and simple pleasures, and they are back at work again...
...Thirty percent of the French, weary of repeated voting, did not go to the polls. But enough followed the "Liberator" to give France's largest political party...
...estimated 200,000,000 were destroyed during the war, the announcement said. Poland lost 70 percent or her libraries, China and the Philippines nearby every volume found by the enemy, and Russia 55,000,000 books in the Ukraine alone...
George Bernard Shaw's thought for the week: the Nazi war criminals were just "extremely ordinary men" given too much power?and: "Is it fair to give common fellows power that would turn the heads of all but the ablest five percent of the population . . . and hang them because they behaved like Torquemada . . .? Ought we not rather hang ourselves for being such fools...
...stymied by the sight of bulging reading rooms. The limited space and the scarcity of books present a sufficiently serious problem without students adding to the confusion. Men who cannot get books at the two main reading rooms should take advantage of the Harvard Union library, which has fifty percent more Government, History, and Economics books than Boylston. Students living in the Yard should plan their work for the evening hours, leaving the mornings and the afternoons for those who must commute. Only through wholehearted cooperation on the part of both Faculty and students can Monday quiz bull become well...