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...Hunter Hunted. In June, the Nazis claimed to have sunk 312,000 tons of Allied shipping-a far cry from the mad March days of 1942 and 1943, when they claimed 900,000 or more. But even this relatively modest claim was a thousand percent exaggeration. In other words, sinkings actually were under 30,000 tons...
...books and, in a chance meeting in 1939 in Evanston, Ill., met people who had known Anna. Anna and the King of Siam consists of 391 pages (with neat line drawings by Margaret Ayer) condensed from Anna's own discursive, old-fashioned writing. It is "75 percent fact, and 25 per cent fiction based on fact." Gilbert & Sullivan King. The King of Siam was a character out of Gilbert & Sullivan - except that when he tortured people, they died. When Anna arrived at Bangkok she met the full force of cold, Oriental impoliteness. She was insulted, neglected, frightened, sneered...
...Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade but sometimes . . . he is apt to refer to such an implement as a steam shovel...
...unfortunate that the Catholic Church in Spain is back doing business in the same way. Once again the Church is exploiting the people, selling indulgences, collecting its ten percent, doing all the things that helped bring on the civil war. The Church is no longer in full sympathy with Franco. It has been severely critical in the past months on several occasions. But it is getting along with Franco. This factor is contributing to growing resentment of the Church...
...Helped him reckon his budget: the Government will give Kenneth tuition plus $30 a month school allotment, and $1 a month for each percent of disability-a total of more than $80 monthly...