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Probably the Vichy Government would hesitate to jail or purge 100 elected representatives of the French people from many different parts of France. Although Vichy has abolished Parliament in fact, it has always been skittish about getting rid of the appearance. Parliament's pay was stopped by Vichy's order on Sept. 1, but Marshal Pétain's own acts provide that Parliament shall remain "in existence" until a new Constitution provides for new assemblies. Moreover, the present French Constitution states that the French Parliament shall meet in the capital, and last week this pretense...
Fortnight ago in Teheran Britain's Minister Sir Reader William Bullard, Soviet Ambassador M. A. Smirnov handed the Iranian Foreign Office a stiff note signed by both their Governments. Its substance : Iran must get rid of its overplus of Germans or else...
...secretary of the miners' federation, wearing a red tie and a red carnation. Housewives, "to demonstrate their political convictions," hung red petticoats on their clotheslines. The Duke smiled, talked, offered agricultural advice to kitchen gardeners. The petticoats disappeared. The secretary threw away his carnation. He could not get rid of his tie. "Blimey," he said, "I can't run around in front of a duke without a tie." Later the Duke organized his youth camps, a kind of British NYA, widely copied in the Dominions...
...told him when he left, he might one day even have charge of a floor. But the pull of England was strong, and that of poetry was stronger. Before he left he had his photograph made (see cut) and gave one to each of his friends. He also got rid of most of his manuscripts. "These, when torn up, filled a large bucket, weighed astonishingly, and burned with a clear flame...
...last week the German people had won all the war they wanted to win. But if they tried to overthrow the dictatorship, they would lose the war. And if they won the war under the dictatorship, they could not then get rid of it. In this dilemma, the German people were numb. And now they would apparently have to fight the U.S., too. They still had one hope about the war: to live through...