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Last week Pele stirred again, cracked the back of Mauna Loa. From a jagged rift on the mountain's slope shot a cascade of fire hundreds of feet high, 150 to 200 feet wide. Fortunately for the citizens of Hilo, the lava moved down toward Kau Desert, on the opposite side from the city...
Afraid of "becoming a tool of the Communist Party," Miss Muriel Gravell '40, of Radcliffe, resigned as president of the Radcliffe chapter of the American Student Union, widening the rift in the A. S. U. over its stand on the Russian invasion of Finland, it was learned last night...
Moslem-Hindu religious and social differences top the list of hindrances to Indian independence from British rule. Probably the most frequent and most telling answer Great Britain gives to demands for immediate dominion status is: "Once freed, India would destroy itself in civil war." The rift divides India as permanently as the Mississippi divides...
...Rift between anti-appeasers in the British Foreign Office and Prime Minister Chamberlain reached near-scandalous proportions during the Munich Crisis. Some Foreign Office officials, the Prime Minister was certain", were even leaking confidential information to the press. After Munich some officials who handled press relations were suddenly shifted to other jobs, but Neville Chamberlain was by no means sure he had plugged all the leaks...
...Peace now and unity gradually," was the dictum for solution of the A. F. of L. - C. I. O. rift set forth by Spencer Pollard '32, instructor in Economics in the fifteenth Guardian Radio Broadcast last night...