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...Emergency Powers Act, urges the British proletariat to be prepared to resist "lest British Fascism come like a thief in the night!" Nationally ready for class war, Labor's Cripps is internationally a pacifist. He induced the last Labor Congress to adopt a motion pledging the Party to refuse to support any British Govern-ment which might make war and to stop hostilities if necessary by organizing a general strike (TIME, Oct. 16). In all recent British by-elections Labor candidates have drawn their loudest cheers by restating variations of this anti-war pledge and Sir Stafford loomed last...
...reader of The Weekly Newsmagazine, written upon the letterhead of Hotel Redwood, Bogalusa, we learn that ceilings and bath are provided for the comfort of guests. Here, it would seem, is a service overlooked by Mr. Statler and other inn owners that should be featured in advertising. Who could resist the appeal of a ceiling with every bath...
...having fallen beneath his two companions, and been partially protected by their corpses. There was considerable indignation about it in and out of the state, but little has been done. The sheriff was "unable" to recognize the abductors or anything about them; it had not entered his head to resist. The International Labor Defense, which had sent down two lawyers, was generally blamed for having interfered in the sweet reasonableness of Alabaman justice...
...strengthens the Soviet brings closer the day when Russia will find it possible to resume a military interest in the disposition of northeastern Asia. The conflict over this territory is an historic one and has quieted down in the last few years only because of Russia's inability to resist...
...Since the nerve cells controlling muscles are destroyed by this affliction, it cannot be hoped that a cure will be found after those cells have become seriously infected. Instead, some way must be found by which the occasional susceptible person can be made to resist the virus. Immune serum has already been used for early treatment; but the difficulty of experimenting on children, and of finding comparable untreated cases, has been a serious drawback in this investigation. It is known, however, that because of the mildness of early symptoms in some children, the disease would not be recognized...