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...German prisoners still in French prison camps...
...specialist in systematic terror, Heinrich Himmler last week began, to rectify Vidkun Quisling's shortcomings. Three Norse operators of a secret radio station were sentenced to death, prison warders were ordered to make things tougher for political prisoners. But Norway still was not scared (see p. 70). From Stockholm came reports that Norway's ever doughty ministers had read openly from their pulpits a forbidden letter from Norway's seven bishops, condemning Quisling and the Nazis root and branch (TIME...
...No.1 Austrian steel company. In exchange, the Thyssen group got shares in a synthetic oil plant. In charge of his Austrian properties Göring put Guido Schmidt, who as Austrian Foreign Minister had made reservations for Kurt von Schuschnigg in the Hotel Metropole, his post-Anschluss prison. Other Göring acquisitions...
...sessions in prison, back in 1934-35, Nehru wrote his autobiography. Published in England, it became a sort of classic among liberal Englishmen, has run through 14 printings. Somewhat revised now for U. S. readers, and brought nearly up to date (August 1940), it seems unlikely that it will reach any such status here; much of its political history is a little too remote from U. S. interest. But as a self-portrait of a great and selfless man, and as an intimate if less complete portrait of a great incipient nation, it has, for any reader anywhere, unique power...
More than 500 C. O.s got U. S. prison sentences in 1917-18. In 1941 they are faring better. Those who are certified by their local draft boards and the national board in Washington as having proved scruples against armed service can enroll in work camps, will pay $30-$35 a month toward their keep (other churchmen will pay for it if they cannot), will work eight hours a day at reforestation, flood control, irrigation, control of soil erosion, other jobs of the C. C. C. type. The C. O.'s day, like the Army's, will begin...