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Having made sure of its ground, the Moscow Government reiterated its request for the return of the Russian fleet* which took refuge at Tunis after the route of General Wrangel's army in November, 1920. It even went so far as to appoint a commission to visit the fleet. The French Government found itself in a dilemma. Having recognized the Bolsheviki, could it refuse to surrender the fleet? Apparently not. But if it did surrender the fleet, Rumania and other Black Sea neighbors of Russia would be visibly annoyed, and Rumania is a close ally of France. What...
...Editor's note: The writer of the above communication, whose name is withheld by request, is the wife of a prominent Harvard graduate and sister of a member of the Yale football team...
Premier Stauning of Denmark informed the Russian Chargé d'Affaires that he declined in the name of the Nation to accede to the Bolshevik Government's request. As the Dowager Empress has been living quietly in Denmark since 1917, and as she is a Danish princess, the refusal of the Premier was wholly comprehensible...
...Dunker '25, President of the Student Council, announced last night that the Council had unanimously approved the request of the Belleau Wood Memorial Association that Harvard students be asked to contribute to the Endowment Fund for Belleau Wood...
...request is granted, it will be the beginning of the end to deprive the East of its distinctions...